Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, -- where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Famous Quotes / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, -- where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!"

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Among	Beat	Book	Books
Cases	Creeping	Dark	Fathers
Felt	Fossils	Found	Garretroom
Giant	Haste	Heats	High
Hour	Large	Mastodon	Mornings
Mouse	Name	Nibbled	Nimble
Packed	Past	Piled	Pillow
Pulling	Read	Ribs	Secret
Small	Terror	Through	Under
Victorious	Where

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Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, -- where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books! - Elizabeth Barrett Browning