"With work on the article over, Ester and Hugo carried on seeing each other at least one evening a week. They had dinner at the restaurant, their conversation was inexhaustible, and afterward he almost always invited her up to the studio, where they went on talking, but never to his flat, which was in the same building but on the other side of the courtyard."
“Early morning, and the day already warm. Anderson was eating breakfast with his old friend Angsley on the veranda of their hotel. Down the river, toward the city, buttery sunlight bounced off the Temple of the Dawn, scattering color into the air like a jeweled delusion.”
"The rumor was that all us kids at Hlemmur were on drugs. That was a gross exaggeration given how limited the supply of drugs was. There was just normal stuff: sniffing glue, markers, and gas."
“When the New York City Public Library opened on May 23, 1911, the building spanned over two city blocks and boasted one of the most impressive collections of books—and bookshelves—in the world. 'It is impossible to think of New York without the New York Public Library, ' notes Henry Hope Reed, during the centennial celebrations of the library.”
