Don't you wish you could live inside a book sometimes?" "All the time.

Nash knows what it means to give your favorite books- it's like handing over a piece of yourself and asking the person to understand it, maybe even treasure it.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Books make you feel things hard.

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It’s the silence, sure, but it’s also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It’s the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.