Investing Quote by Sloane Crosley

“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of…

— Megan Crane

“Even before I learned what I was, books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they’re the closest thing I have…

— Jim C. Hines

“Strange, don’t you think, that nuns and monks make the most sensual food and drink?”

— Megan Chance

“For two years I’ve been a monk but the only monastery I’ve lived in is my own mind.”

— Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au

“...I had decided to tidy up a bit. Actually it hadn't really been a choice. The situation had got out of hand, particularly because…

— Gianrico Carofiglio

“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house…

— Anne Rice

“The tall monk who came striding down the shadowed monastery corridor was surprisingly young, barely thirty. As he swept past the novices, his dark…

— Michelle Frost

“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface.…

— Jenny Nimmo

“I suddenly missed the curious shelving patterns of my room, those old planks from the barn groaning under the weight of the notebooks. Shelving…

— Reif Larsen

“No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.”

— Sydney Smith

“It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest.”

— Jeanette Winterson