“Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“He loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
