I've always been kind of deep into thrifting and…

All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand…

— George Packer

“I am obsessed with shopping for secondhand clothing. Nobody else has it, and it has a story that comes with it.”

— Sheila Heti

“Secondhand books are full of mysteries, which is why I like them. Frederick”

— Cath Crowley

Secondhand smoke is toxic to bystanders.

— Norah Vincent

“A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.”

— Christopher Bram

“By now, I probably preferred secondhand books to new ones. In America such items were disparagingly referred to as “previously owned”; but this very…

— Julian Barnes

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or…

— David Rakoff

“It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that…

— Katherine Min

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.

— Caitlin Rose

“What a treasure, to meet with any thing a new heart-- all hearts, nowadays, are secondhand at best.”

— Maria Edgeworth

Have you had your bad luck, until today, You Got Everything As Secondhand! So, What's You Thinks About Marry

— Mak_786

When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the…

— Greg Lynn

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

— Helene Hanff

My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In…

— Sophie Hannah