Every morning Quote by Penelope Fitzgerald

“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and…

— Erica Bauermeister

“She opened the book to a spot about halfway in. She had learned that it didn’t really matter where she opened the thing—it always…

— Scott Prussing

“She wanted to own a book so badly and she had thought the copying would do it. But the pencilled sheets did not seem…

— Betty Smith

“The trouble with bookshops is that they are as bad as pubs. You start at one and then you drift to another, and before…

— R.T. Campbell

“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”

— E. Lockhart

“It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read. Books that had already been read…

— Katarina Bivald

“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into…

— Jane Austen

“She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.”

— Cornell Woolrich

“Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books…

— Eudora Welty

“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like a lover,…

— Cath Staincliffe

“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every…

— Roald Dahl

“She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.”

— Peter Straub