Lexivore

“Too little information and you’re blind, too much and you’re blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Libraries had a scent that nothing else did. Was it simply the intermingling smells of old pages, dust, adhesive, and ink? Or did the stories have a scent of their own? If you took papers and book glue and ink and mixed them together, would it smell the same?”
― Mike Omer, Thicker than Blood

“He was no genius, but he showed up and did the work, and most times that was all it took to succeed at anything in life.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Living with the Dead

“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself. I like only that which serves my purpose.”
― Voltaire, Candide