“I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.” — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition. ” — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“Librarians, too, are gatekeepers -- not of actual experience, of course, but of its written accounts. My job is to safeguard those accounts. Not… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.” — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man in charge… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.” — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.” — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew -- in the incontestable way that children know things -- that… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.” — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
