Murder in the Locked Library (Book Retreat Mysteries, #4)

by Ellery Adams

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.” —Henry Ward Beecher

Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes and failures had been wiped clean by summer.’”

How Reading Changed My Life, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, and Rare Books Uncovered.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?’”

“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That’s how I hold your voice. I am scrap wood thrown in your fire, and quickly reduced to smoke.”

People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.’”

“Faulkner said that ‘you cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.’”

John Ruskin, was this: ‘One cannot be angry when one looks at a penguin.’”

To quote Philip Pullman, ‘We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence.’”