Random Acts of Bookishness

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

—Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (via quotablebookquotes)

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People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

—Neil Gaiman (via acelockstark)

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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

—Umberto Eco (via wordpainting)

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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

—Kurt Vonnegut

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

—Harper Lee