“One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Everyone has something to hide.” — 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