“As his father made painfully clear that night, to deface the pages of a book was to adopt the manner of a Visigoth. It was to strike a blow against that most sacred and noble of man’s achievements – the ability to set down his finest ideas and sentiments so that they might be shared through the ages.”

“As his father made painfully clear that night, to deface the pages of a book was to adopt the manner of a Visigoth. It was to strike a blow against that most sacred and noble of man’s achievements – the ability to set down his finest ideas and sentiments so that they might be shared through the ages.”

— Amor Towles