Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest im... - Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
"Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth."
More quotes by Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
"I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books."
"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."
"Unpacking books is a revelatory activity."
"But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence."
"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."