**~**Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
-Robertson Davies **~**

**~**"It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well." -TERRY PRATCHETT**~**

**~** The wise man reads both books and life itself **~**
-Lin Yutang

**~** Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world **~** -Walter Pater

**~** Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? **~** -Henry Ward Beecher

**~** A truly great book should be read in youth,again in maturity,and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen in morning light, at noon and by moonlight **~** - Robertson Davies

**~** Some books are undeservedly forgotten but none are undeservedly remembered **~** -W H Auden

**~** Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of varigated feather and they have a charm which domesticated volumes of the library lack. **~**
-Virginia Woolf

**~** Everything that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. **~** -Thomas Carlyle

**~** One sure way into a persons soul is his reading list. **~** -Mary B W Tabor

Books to the ceiling
Books to the sky
My pile of books
Are a mile high
How I love them!
How I need them!
I'll have a long beard
By the time I read them
-Arnold Lobel

***Beware the man of one book!~Latin Proverb***

**~** Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous; they answer all questions with readiness; they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.**~** -Holbrook Jackson

**~**Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret-room
Piled high with cases in my father’s name;
Piled high, packed large,—where, creeping in and out
Among the giant fossils of my past,
Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box, pulling through the gap,
In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,
The first book first. And how I felt it beat
Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark,
An hour before the sun would let me read!
My books! - Elizabeth Barrett Browning **~**

**~** For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
-John Milton **~**

**~**Libraries are not made; they grow - Augustine Birrell **~**

**~**"I am quite illiterate but I read a lot."**~**
-J.D. SALINGER

**~**"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry." -UMBERTO ECO**~**

**~**"Books may well be the only true magic."
-ALICE HOFFMAN**~**

**~**"Old bookshops are so much fewer than they were, but they are still a good place to take leave of your troubles." -BARRY HUMPHRIES**~**

**~**"A house without books is like a room without windows."-HORACE MANN**~**

**~**"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."-JERRY SEINFELD**~**

**~**"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." -DR. SEUSS**~**

**_**"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens ..."
-Carlos Ruiz Zafon (The Shadow of the Wind)**_**

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