#thereaderonthe627

Guylain almost felt like reassuring Monique, telling her it was OK, that everything would be fine, that striking up a conversation was the hardest bit and afterwards the words would come all by themselves, that there was no need to be afraid.

...a world where books were allowed to end their lives snugly arranged inside the green booths lining the parapets, growing old to the pulse of the great river watched over by the towers of Notre Dame.