Afternoon Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

“Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every drop of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out from between their pages – a special…

— Haruki Murakami

“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather, the silkiness…

— H.Y. Hanna

There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best…

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

— Neil Gaiman

“The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book…

— M.J. Rose

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor…

— Haruki Murakami

“He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected their faces…

— Ray Bradbury

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention…

— Pierre Loti

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

“One of the special delights of my childhood was to go and see the cases of illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum, and to…

— Alan Watts