He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and…

“ Buried Cities During the Roman Empire, wealthy Romans took vacations in the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The people in these towns did…

— Jean F. Blashfield

There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

— Larry Wall

The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.

— Jean Rhys

“But I find it strange that her excitement over a new child in her life was so explosive, so vivid and yet there is…

— Vicki Perry

“But there was something else, too, a strange excitement at the idea of playing normal, and every time he tried to untangle how he…

— Victoria Schwab

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

— Margaret Mitchell

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look…

— Ernest Hemingway

“This is incredible. This is quite amazing because who you're honoring tonight is not only myself but the ghost of a lot of your…

— Ray Bradbury

“Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often…

— Mikita Brottman

“Earlier that day, a typewriter bomb had exploded at a black market skin house over on Eel Street, sending words raining through the cardboard…

— Craig Padawer

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

— Elizabeth Bishop

We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read…

— Umberto Eco

“Things turn up in strange places all the time. For example library books, which possess a disconcerting ability to move from place to place,…

— Lauren Willig

“Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.”

— Geraldine Brooks

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

— Christopher Morley