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“My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.”
― The Distant Hours
― The Distant Hours
“The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. ”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“What better place to kill time than a library?”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
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Dalia’s 2025 Year in Books
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