Ashley Duval

“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. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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

“What you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way”
― Marcel Proust