This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

“Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be c…”

“...,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you…”

“We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, …”

“Oh, I wish I could make my poor heart just burst.”