Iris

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies and imagines he is telling the truth.”
― Halldor Laxness

“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore