51 Quotes About Bookish

And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her pathological quietness, an obeisance to a reticence that is utterly untreatable. If you cannot commit to this sort of dedication, then let her be. Let her wander in wonder among her books and live out her days in her own world without you.

She decided at once that she and the boy were cut of the same bookish cloth, and could quite possibly become co-conspirators.

I wanted books like a vampire wants blood.

I had read all the books so hard that when I gave them back the print was faint and gray with exhaustion

Coming out of a book was always painful.

CUSTOMER: I'm looking for a book about the Holocaust; my daughter's very interested in World War II. But I don't want it to be a sad book.BOOKSELLER: ...Not a sad one?CUSTOMER: No. No sad bits at all.

My husband is like one of those second-hand books you buy that's got all the wrong bits underlined.

(A couple approaches the desk)BOOKSELLER: Can I help you find something?MAN: Yeah, we're looking for a vocabulary book. It's either called The Soars or The Sars.BOKSELLER: Let me look it up and see what we have.WOMAN: Oh, it's OK; I made a note of the title.(Customer pulls a napkin from her purse and lays it down for the bookseller to read. Written on it is 'The Saurus').

If there's a perfect guy for you anywhere," Langston said, "he'll be found hunting for old Salinger editions.