Books surrounded her, words and wisdom from the ages, all bound and stacked and aligned, like the life she'd never had; all of it calling to her as she sat in deep concentration, head down, her blonde hair covering her face, her fingers at her cheeks and temple, the weight bearing down.
"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books."
~George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
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