Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest im... - Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

"If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be."

"My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices."

"Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read."

"Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers."

"If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity."