“They – the books I mean, not the ladies of Technical Services, though maybe those ladies too – might have dreamed of a different life in a private home, beloved and displayed and well dressed and only occasionally, dreamily read, but they belonged to the city now and had to work for the common good.”

“They – the books I mean, not the ladies of Technical Services, though maybe those ladies too – might have dreamed of a different life in a private home, beloved and displayed and well dressed and only occasionally, dreamily read, but they belonged to the city now and had to work for the common good.”

— Elizabeth McCracken