Affinity Quote by Renee Ahdieh

“Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom…

— Oscar Wilde

“The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.”

— Alex Flinn

“We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.”

— William Hazlitt

The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel…

— Laura Whitcomb

Two mentally disturbed men decided they must go to school. They collected old books and went to sit under the tree pretending it was…

— Newlove

“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said when,…

— Cornelia Funke

“Who are you? She asked silently, as she laid away the collector's quotations, his drawings, his scraps of famous poetry: "Come live with me…

— Allegra Goodman

I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome…

— Stephen Jay Gould

When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think…

— Alain Resnais

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and…

— Ambrose Bierce

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I…

— Tana French

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with…

— Alberto Manguel