“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”― Mark Twain
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”- Henry Ward Beecher
“But the man in the robe is talking. His voice is like the rustling of old parchments in a library, late at night, when the people have gone home and the books begin to read themselves.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Omnibus, Vol. 2
“There were books on all sorts of topics, from exciting things of vital importance to things that nobody had a reason to care about, but in a library the topics keep taking turns being important or interesting. Each patron in a library is looking for something different, and so the book you hardly notice is the book someone else is breathless to find, and the book that always makes you smile is busy making someone else sick.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast
“Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons
“A good book is like a guest. They stay with you for a while, and when they leave, you are still smiling, and thinking they left a little too soon. You will always remember their pleasant company; things they said that moved you and maybe changed your perspective You plan to invite them again so you can spend quality time together and when you invite them in, you are full of anticipation about the new discoveries you will make when you are together.”
― Suzy Davies
