Lost Books Quotes

“The interesting thing about the feeling of loss when a book is borrowed is that the book's quality rarely matters. So mysterious is the power of books in our lives that every loss is a serious loss, every hole in the shelf a crater. Our books are ourselves, our characters, our insulation against those very people who would take away our books. Someone should invent markers for bookcases to note 'missing persons.'
~Roger Rosenblatt, Writer”
― Estelle Ellis, At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries

“And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
Many of them also which used curious acts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.”
― King James Bible, ACTS OF THE APOSTLES