I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren’t even supposed to know exist. I knocked on the closed door, said the proper passwords,...

Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.

No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain. (p. 85)

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened