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“We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was a…

— Ian McEwan

“When she opened the door, the happy ringing of the silver bell above her head and the smell of old books welcomed her like…

— Angela C. Blackmoore

“WARNING: This little book is a bullet to the head. Or, for a less violent metaphor, this is the door marked EXIT. You can…

— Graham Ellis

“As such, it was clear that its only purpose was to remind the arriving shoppers of nature and beauty—presumably the same nature and beauty…

— Aurelio Voltaire

“Are there weapons in a bookstore?' 'It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,' Monty…

— Anne Bishop

“Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.”

— Brian Selznick

“thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of…

— Terry Pratchett

“You never think about the mall being closed. It’s always supposed to be there, like milk in the refrigerator or God.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“No one knows the scent of books, or the scent of perfume, until someone opens them.”

— Omaid Ahmadzai

“Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new…

— Lauren Leto

“The small foyer is gloomy and dark. Shadows from the white crocheted curtain on the one window cast lacy shapes on the floor. To…

— Christina Baker Kline

“... Bookstore, which smelled the way only a new book from England does when you open it for the first time, faintly like nutmeg,…

— Frederick Beuchner