The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and...

If you try to walk in my shoes, you’ll end up in a bookstore.

Back home, I went to my closet and pulled out the old engineer’s transit case stored there. When we were kids, Emma and I had found it in the attic, dusty and empty, and the...

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It...

Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don’t have.

Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anywhere else.