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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/whatever-the-reasons-we-never-allow-anyone-else-to-know-the-whole-of/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

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## More by Martin Edwards

> [“However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/however-hard-as-i-try-it-keeps-growing-my-bibliomania-is-pretty-acute/)

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> [“She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/she-says-i-ought-to-throw-out-at-least-two-books-for-every-one-i-buy/)

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> [“He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/he-was-never-lonely-not-with-his-books-for-company-books-never/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/whatever-the-reasons-we-never-allow-anyone-else-to-know-the-whole-of/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/life-coming-out-of-a-death-he-d-told-her-is-the-most-potent-myth-of/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/like-a-modern-counterpart-of-a-tightly-corseted-victorian-she-needed/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/there-was-something-she-found-intensely-attractive-about-a-man-with-a/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/one-thing-you-learn-in-my-job-is-that-the-truth-is-usually-the-last/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/readers-came-and-went-only-the-books-stayed-forever/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/gets-blamed-for-a-lot-of-things-does-the-weather-convenient-scapegoat/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/seldom-happier-than-when-i-m-on-my-own-lost-in-a-book/)

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> [“To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/to-her-it-was-an-article-of-faith-any-woman-with-talent-owes-it-to/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/for-marc-books-were-objects-of-beauty-to-be-loved-not-just-read/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“He loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/he-loved-the-smell-and-feel-of-old-books-to-hold-them-was-to-touch/)

[Martin Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-edwards/)

> [“Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-edwards/done-to-death-by-books-there-were-worse-ways-to-go-even-if-you-weren/)

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