Books Quote by Juliet Gauvin

“The room smelled of books, that subtle smell which to some is stuffy and to others intoxicating, and it was silent.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which wasn’t really…

— Gideon Defoe

“She could read the phone book and make it sound erotic.”

— Kresley Cole

“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest…

— Cassandra Clare

“For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets…

— Elizabeth C. Bunce

“All the things she couldn’t say, the things no one wanted to hear.”

— Spencer Gordon

“Words could be empty, but what they were capable of bringing out in each other through their silence was something he’d never expected to…

— Josie Leigh

“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

“But in the room there was nothing but the exciting scent of the girl and her wanting. We”

— Harold Robbins

“I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and…

— Saffron Mello Castro

“I am barren of words my female. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing.”

— J.R. Ward

“A book for me! I can read it. I can smell it. I can keep it forever.”

— Aliki