15 Quotes by Lindsey Drager

For a long while they are silent, thinking about abstract things like control and what it means to love an institution that is defined by loss, because a library is such a space and their duty is to encourage the books to leave.

If the institution of mathematics told a story . . . how would it end?

I think the photographer is in love with the deaf woman, Genevieve says finally. Mercedes fingers the lip of her mug. How can you tell? He touches her the way we touch the books.

Jacob will think: What is at stake in sharing this story? And Wilhelm will think: What is at stake in leaving this story untold?

a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.

That's the principle of progress, the notion that things will one day change. We must expect different results, otherwise the whole world becomes petrified.

in no world is always ever exact

Procedure follows this law: It doesn't matter how much damage there is. If the right part fails, expect collapse.

Though she cannot read, she knows well that what gets committed to the page, what gets translated into the code of letters and locked in the coffin of a book, becomes truth while everything else dissolves into the abyss of history lost.