Books Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Not an attrition of memory, but great locked rooms in the mansion of his recollection. Not forgotten, any more than a locked room ceases…

— Terry Pratchett

“The accumulation of consecutive rooms in his memory now resembled those displays of grouped elbow chairs on show, and beds, and lamps, and inglebooks…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The cabins they passed among seemed solemn in their abandonment, cramped by the watercourse and the overhanging brow of the cloudy mountain. Some of…

— Charles Frazier

“I wanted to learn more about its past but felt this overwhelming need to leave. I remember hearing somewhere that buildings can hold memories…

— Hadinet Tekie

“Houses seem to remember,' said he. 'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.”

— Emma Frances Dawson

“Private libraries were extraordinary, Lady Elspeth de Moray mused. To have an entire room filled with books--- in one's own house --- seemed quite…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“Empirically, the home had been designed to suit its purpose, and it did so quite well. It was a place where dreams died and…

— Joseph DiFrancesco

“I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of…

— Anne Spollen

“Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated.”

— Anthony Doerr

“I remember the sights and sounds and smells of home because the memory of home is the thing that never leaves us.”

— Wyatt Cooper

“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices.…

— Nora Roberts

“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.”

— Henry Ward Beecher