“The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic,… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“Bruno was a musician with the temperament of an anarchist and the breath of a bartender's dishrag. He gave the lie to bookselling as… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share
“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share
“Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.” — Sheridan Hay Copy Share
“They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books had made… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share
“I didn't know then that this was how deep emotion most often comes, from opposite directions and at once, when you are least aware… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share
“..the ceiling is just a deep, dusty dome, like the inside of a skull. (Both are vaults, both repositories of knowledge.)” — Sheridan Hay Copy Share
“The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share
