#bookstores

"Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell"

"His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling."

"The Bookshop has a thousand books,All colors, hues, and tinges,And every cover is a doorThat turns on magic hinges."

"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."

"I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted."

"Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse."

"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."

"those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers..."