I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

“But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from t…”

“A fortuneteller at a magicians' convention in Atlantic City once told him that …”

“This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things chan…”

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless…”