Thomas Montasser > Quotes

“Quel che un libro trasmette non dipende da quello che c'è scritto dentro."
"Ah no?"
"Dipende da chi lo legge."

- Capitolo 3 (Conversazione fra Victor e la libraia)”
― Thomas Montasser, Il club delle fate dei libri

“Books are dangerous in a country where freedom does not exist.”
― Thomas Montasser, A Very Special Year

“A cabinet of fantasies, a source of knowledge, a collection of lore from past and present, a place to dream....a bookshop can be so many things.”
― Thomas Montasser, A Very Special Year

“The truth is that literature can grab hold of us and capture our entire attention. It can transport us to other worlds, free us from every day cares. We can lose ourselves in literature.”
― Thomas Montasser, A Very Special Year

“Discovering a book meant freely rising above the demands of everyday life and uprooting your own existence from the here and now in order to plant it elsewhere.”
― Thomas Montasser, A Very Special Year

“The discoveries in this wonderful cabinet of dreams, the scents of all the new and old books, the aroma of their experiences and promises, their curses and prophesies, of the hands in which they had rested, the care with which the paper manufacturer, printer and binder had worked on them, the ink with which they were printed, the glue, the cloth, the leather, the covers and dust-jackets, the stitching, the ribbons and the tissue paper. No perfumery could produce as perfect a blend from the interplay of countless aromas as a bookshop, in which old and new works were arranged with love.”
― Thomas Montasser, A Very Special Year