When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single…

“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than their real…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“It was true Paige and I had dinner alone. She wanted to stop by and pick up some books — poetry books I’d owned…

— Elissa Schappell

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of…

— Agatha Christie

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address…

— Kiran Desai

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The…

— Erin Morgenstern

A couple trophies on my shelf so what else.

— Mac Miller

Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot…

— Kabir Bedi

Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it

— Ralph Yarborough

Man what's the point of living if I'm living for myself Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf

— LeCrae

“Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. 'Were”

— Charles Dickens

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

— Charles William Eliot

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

— Henry Rollins

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight…

— Alan Cumming

No one to talk with, all by myself. No one to walk with, but I'm happy on the shelf.

— Fats Waller