“ Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once traversed them. These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bar… Kamand Kojouri
“ I don't feel sorry for myself, Beck. Lots of people have shitty parents and roaches in the cabinets and stale, raw Pop-Tarts for dinner and a TV that barely works and a dad who doesn't care when his s… Caroline Kepnes
“ I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips. Leah Spiegel
“ Walking into a bookshop is a depressing thing. It’s not the pretentious twats, browsing books as part of their desirable lifestyle. It’s not the scrubby members of staff serving at the counter: the ps… Matthew Selwyn
“ On the best nights, he’d appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn’t had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to find me,… Laura Anderson Kurk
“ Where's your church?""We're standing in it.""But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday.""Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the ful… Forrest Church
“ The luminescent flow of a sunbathed garden— illuminating the shifting colors of its inhabitants— echoed in my memory as I opened the antique bookstore door in the shaft of window light. The books, lik… Gina Marinello-Sweeney
“ I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and the mysterious fog that blanketed it. I could almost smell the cappuccinos I'd planned to… Heather Demetrios
“ Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books. Adelise M. Cullens
“ I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted. Mary Ann Shaffer
“ It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways chan… Russell Grandinetti
“ A library always housed a trove of undiscovered friendships and forays, and a bookstore, a place where those temporary connections might become a constancy, must always hold a charm over any scholar’s… Michelle Franklin
“ You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day. Junot Diaz
“ I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can… Helene Hanff
“ Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books co… Laurie Horowitz
