55 Quotes About Bookshops

You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.

These places are time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers. They are dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders, and safe places. They are full of infinite possibilities and tales worth taking home.

And then she reverses direction and heads straight for Willesden Bookshop, an independent shop that rents space from the council and provides--no matter what Brent Council may claim--an essential local service. It is run by Helen. Helen is an essential local person. I would characterize her essentialness in the following way: 'Giving the people what they didn't know they wanted.' Important category.

There were fewer finer things in life, in Newbury's humble opinion, than spending time perusing the shelves of a good bookshop.

Because whether we're in the middle of the desert or in the heart of a city, or the top of a mountain or on an underground train: having good stories to keep us company means the whole world.

bookshops are time machinesspaceshipsstory-makerssecret-keepersdragon-tamersdream-catchersfact-finders& safe places.(this book is for those who know this to be true)

Who wouldn't want to get married in a room full of love stories?

Like all good bookshops, Edgar's was a pocket universe, where time moved slow as clouds.

A cabinet of fantasies, a source of knowledge, a collection of lore from past and present, a place to dream....a bookshop can be so many things.