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“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

“I was the eighth dwarf. Sneaky.”
― Alan Bradley, Speaking from Among the Bones

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
― Agatha Christie

“The library is like a candy store where everything is free.”
― Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
― Epicurus

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Tell me, Brother Gregory, in your opinion can a woman think as well as a man?"
"Properly speaking," he said in a learned voice, "a woman cannot think at all, or at least, think as we men know it. But the imitative ability is very greatly developed in women, so that by copying men, some may attain the appearance of thought.”
― Judith Merkle Riley, A Vision of Light

“My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.”
― Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is the primal pain, what we call it in German. There will never be another pain like this pain. You cannot ready yourself for it because it is unimaginable.”
― David Samuel Levinson, Tell Me How This Ends Well