A quotation from McCracken, Elizabeth

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.

Elizabeth McCracken (b. 1966) American author
The Giant’s House [Peggy] (1997)

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