Elvira

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

“Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. ”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading