Elvira

“In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.”
― Alberto Manguel

“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. ”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night