#k

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. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#book-lover #books #library

I'm sick of you cheating on me with everyone who has a dick ↗

— P.C. Cast

#tempted #cheating

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#libraries #library

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ↗

— Anatole France

#lending #library #library

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here, reading a page from one over there, enjoying them all as objects to be touched, looked at, even smelt, is a deep satisfaction. And often, very often, while browsing haphazardly, looking for nothing in particular, you pick up a volume that suddenly excites you, and you know that this one of all the others you must read. Those are great moments - and the books we come across like that are often the most memorable. ↗

— Aidan Chambers

#library #reading #words #satisfaction

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#library

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#library #words #library

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#creativity #deepak-chopra #educational #inner-self #inner-voice

I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#derek #winning

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#winning