Kelly

“When we share our favorite titles, we can't help but share ourselves as well. Shakespeare said the eyes are the windows to the soul, but we readers know one's bookshelves reveal just as much.”
― Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

“Her eyes widened as she took in what must be thousands of titles. She stepped farther into the room finding the bookcases rose up at least two stories. Like a bee to honey, she was drawn to the remarkable library. There was a ladder that glided along a set of rails to reach the top shelves. And a spiral staircase for the second floor of shelves with yet another ladder. t was truly remarkable.
She didn't know whether she had walked onto the set of My Fair Lady or the library of Beauty and the Beast. She'd never seen anything so magnificent.”
― Jennifer Faye, Beauty and Her Boss

“No more shall you go bookless, Mrs. Crumb. From this day henceforth you have free run of my library with my compliments."
She stared. "I-"
He grinned, looking not a little wicked. "Have you looked at my books? Glanced at my titles? Fondled my spines?”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, Duke of Sin

“Books were hungry things, and if you stayed too long in any one place, they would consume everything and everyone around you.”
― Michael Chabon, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces