“I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and… would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.”

—  Laurie R. King, book The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice

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