What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady, to be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together and they would not trust or want to listen to one another. But each is a piece of a stained-glass whole, without which I wouldnβt make sense to myself or to the world outside. β¨ Great Reads In Store: Indie Booksellers Pick 2012's Best. www.npr.org. December 13, 2012.
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