• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

    Penelope Fitzgerald: A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.
    Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt