#book-lover

"As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!"

"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."

"God is indeed able to make you what He wants you to be."

"One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be."

"There are few sights sadder than a ruined book."

"A house without books is like a room without windows."

"I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to."