Arms Quote by Elizabeth McCracken

“Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.”

Elizabeth McCracken

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