#bibliophile

"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."

"Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste."

"She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds."

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."

"We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun."