"I will not return to a universe
of objects that don’t know each other,
as if islands were not the lost children
of one great continent." 

~ Lisel Mueller

"The world in front of me and the world 'inside' me are not merely adjacent, but overlapping; superimposed. A book feels like the intersection between these two domains – or like a conduit; a bridge; a passage between them." ~ Peter Mendelsund