“Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)”

“I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page”

“I will always carry you, inside, outside, on my fingertips, and at brain edges.”

“Why tear off a single page when you can throw away the book?”

“The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.”

“I’d much rather pretend I’m
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”

“First kiss ever I took
Like a page from a romance book.
The sky opened and the earth shook.”

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ”

“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”