6 Quotes Tagged: bookstore

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

This is not an ordinary bookstore.”
“Indeed. It seems more akin to a youth hostel –

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.