45 Quotes About Bookshelves

The room was as big as the Duke of Pardloe's library and had at least as many books, and yet the feeling of it was more akin to a small cluttered hole (Pardloe's)You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not, Books that were usedhad an open, interested feel to them, even when closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order. You felt as though the book took on as much interest in you as you did in it and it was willing you to reach for it.

My dream house . . . Each room a different texture, a different mood, a different poem, and at its heart, a creaking ladder sliding along floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in a timeless oak-paneled room that smells of leather and eternity.

[Habla el autor] (...) Al principio mantenía mis libros en rígido orden alfabético, por autores. Luego empecé a dividirlos por géneros: novelas, ensayos, obras teatrales, poemas. Más adelante traté de agruparlos por idiomas, y cuando, durante mis viajes, me veía obligado a conservar sólo unos pocos, separaba los que apenas leía de aquellos que leía todo el tiempo y, finalmente, de los que quería leer. (...)

A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than finishing a book, and walking over to your shelves to figure out what you’re going to read next."[The Wonderful and Terrible Habit of Buying Too Many Books, PWxyz (news blog of Publishers Weekly), February 16th, 2012]

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

She's dating the school quarterback.""People date all the time. And they break up all the time.""Not these two," Meredith said with a snort. "Their love is epic. Everyone at school knows it. He gave up his philandering ways to be with his longtime childhood bestie."I finally glanced at her sideways. "They're in high school. High schoolers don't philander.""Jack Caputo does. Or did.

The bookcases were lined with titles, hundreds of books shelved by subject in alphabetical order.-Everything from aberrant behavior to the mysteries of zen.

He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books.

Sumire was so bereft of household goods the place looked deserted. There weren't any curtains in the windows and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a gang of intellectual refugees.