“A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I’d go looking for the England of English literature, and he said: “Then it’s there.”
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
“I am on a curiosity voyage, and I need my paddles to travel. These books… these books are my paddles.
~ Dustin Henderson, Stranger Things 2”
Source: Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-the-Scenes Companion
“Serilda felt immediately comforted by the scent of leather and vellum, parliament and binding glue and ink. She inhaled deeply, ignoring the odd look that Leyna gave her. It was the scent of stories, after all.”
Source: Gilded
“Encouraging kids to read gives them tools to safely navigate the real world, and to protect themselves. Reading helps them think critically—and it gives them the opportunity to learn about themselves and others, to create empathy and compassion. – Lorrie Roussin”
Source: The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
“Bookstores are wondrous places, are they not?”
Source: The Royal Tutor, Vol. 2
“You have the capacity to develop a vision and ensure it has clarity. The clarity of your vision and your commitment to it will lead you to victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.”
Source: The Book of Phoenix
“To write one book may be regarded as a misfortune, to write two just looks like recklessness.”
“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
- The Death of the Moth”
Source: The Secret, Book & Scone Society
“The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him, life; it went out from him, truth. It came to him, business; it went from him, poetry. It was dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in proportion to the depth of the mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing.”
Source: The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation