"The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still..."

“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away, and he almost burnt the house down.”

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via bookmania)