Quote by W. Lucas Collins

“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand…

— Emily Dickinson

“I grew as fussy and particular about where to put what, which books should lie where, what cushion should grace what corner as a…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history…

— Frank Herbert

“Whereas we, the dead, are the true inheritors of the Modern. The live lot assemble time into lazy decadences--ten-year periods of conspicuous attitudinising, which…

— Will Self

“That's what I like about the modern world: choice. We all choose what we have to live with.”

— Dorothy Koomson

“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

“I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history…

— Frank Herbert

“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.”

— Ashim Shanker

“History’s smell. Like old roses on a breeze. It would lurk forever in ordinary things. In coat hangers. Tomatoes. In the tar on roads.…

— Arundhati Roy

“This was in truth not living; it was scarcely even existing, and they felt that it was too little for the price they paid.…

— Upton Sinclair

“I lived in the royal library, among all the books." "You resided in a... library?" "There were suites inside and great balconies that overlooked…

— Kresley Cole

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne