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70 Bookshelves quotes by 66 unique authors

...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases.… — E. Lockhart
The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended. — Holly Black
You can read minds, and you didn't tell me?” Link stared at me like he just found out I was the Silver Surfer. He rubbed… — Kami Garcia
Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved...… — John Green
A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair… — L.A. Weatherly
Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculus." Will unpeeled… — Cassandra Clare
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used… — Gary Shteyngart
Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you… — Malcolm Gladwell
[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious… — Jonathan Franzen
It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of… — Nancy Horan
Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or… — O. Henry
If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him… — Alexander Theroux
Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret… — Robin Sloan
All bookshelves are magical. — Neil Gaiman
The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them. — Douglas Coupland
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. — Anna Quindlen
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books. — William Nicholson
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see… — John Boyne
I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving… — Rick Riordan
Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens; bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices and myrrh — Unknown Author

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