"I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me." - Djuna Barnes

Nora will leave that girl some day; but though those two were buried at opposite ends of the earth, one dog will find them both.

God so ponderous in their minds that they could stamp out the world with him in seven days.

Dusty books are my one real passion. New books are like young girls — fit for nothing. A secondhand book is like a person who has traveled; it is only when a book has been handled by several persons and has become dirty that it's fit for contemplation.