“This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him…”
“…Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby who’ll hold onto them for a spell. Books should die like people, consumed by aches and pains, infected, drowning off a bridge together with the suicides, poked into a potbellied stove, torn apart by children to make paper boats. They should die of anything, in other words, except boredom, as private property condemned to a life sentence on the shelf.”
“I put the book in my jacket’s inside pocket… Where the gun used to be, now there is its opposite.”
The Book-Butterfly 
Ohhh what words!
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