The Secret of Lost Things
Sheridan Hay
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.”
“I didn't know then that this was how deep emotion most often comes, from opposite directions and at once, when you are least aware and farthest from yourself.”
“The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become”
“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room.”
“nothing is ever what you imagine, is it?”
“Remember, a book is always a gift.”
“Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.”
“He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .”
“Art opens the fishiest eye . . .”
“The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.”
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otherness, books, seeing-things-in-a-different-way, art, seeing-anew, city-life, urban-life, self-realization, gift, book, cities
