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

“Never mistrust, unless given a reason.”
― Sonia Rumzi

“I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.”
― Woody Allen

“I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.”
― Rory Stewart, The Places in Between

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“William Morton is like a holly bush,” Evelyn said. “Admirable from a distance, but spiky and uncomfortable up close.”
― Sophie Austin, The Lamplighter’s Bookshop

“He glanced at her then, his dark eyes gold in the lamplight, and there was something in his gaze that made her heart skitter.”
― Sophie Austin, The Lamplighter’s Bookshop

“Evelyn watched Lady Violet glide towards them, clusters of people parting and then closing up behind her, like shoals of fish. If it wasn’t for her dress – as bright as blood – she might’ve lost her. Instead she watched her approach in glimmers of red...”
― Sophie Austin, The Lamplighter’s Bookshop