Bookstores Quotes

“I was going to say the
words that could have
made a difference but
then I saw you
You were least interested
to know
You didn’t even bother to
see the truth in my eyes
I had to leave darling I
had to
I had no intention to end
things like this
But this was written
It was in our fate
They say, “When you end
up remember there’s a
new beginning waiting
for you somewhere”
I’ll look for that new
beginning
To search for a new
commencing
With a promise that this
time
I won’t look backward.”
― Hareem Ch, Another World

“Some bookstores are organized, more gallery than shop. Some are sterile, reserved for only the new and untouched.
But not this one.
This shop is a labyrinth of stacks and shelves, texts stacked two, even three deep, leather beside paper beside board. Her favorite kind of store, one that’s easy to get lost in.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Isn't a bookshop, to some extent, a temple to Browsing?”
― Erik Satie, A Mammal's Notebook: Collected Writings of Erik Satie

“I think a bookshop is like a map of the world. There are infinite paths you can take through it and none of them are right or wrong. Here in a bookshop we give readers landmarks to help them find their way, but every reader has to learn to set their own compass.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Bookwanderers

“Within minutes, melancholy engulfed him, as was usually the case in bookstores. Books everywhere, screaming for attention from the large presentation tables, shamelessly exposing their purple or iridescent green covers, piled up on the floor and patiently waiting to be put on the shelf, pouring out of the tables, sprinkled on the floor. Near the back wall of the store, huge piles of missed books were waiting with a sullen air to return to their forger. Next to them stood cardboard boxes still unopened, filled with young and brilliant volumes that burned with impatience to live their moment of glory. Ernest's heart trembled the moment he thought about his new baby. What chance did a frail soul have, in this sea of books, to swim and hold on to the surface?”
― Irvin Yalom, Lying on the Couch

“At first glance this looked just like a smaller reflection of the room Edwin had just left. More books, on more shelves. It had the quiet of an unopened chapel or the stacks of a library. Edwin set briefcase, hat, and coat down near the mirror through which he had stepped, and exhaled. He came here as other men went to gaming-rooms or brothels, orchestral performances or opium dens. Everyone had their own vice of relaxation Edwin’s was just considered duller than most.
He browsed for a pleasant half hour, touching the spines of books with a reverent finger, occasionally pulling one from the shelf to check its table of contents”
― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

“I have always felt safe in bookstores. As in the proverbial Tiffany’s, I sincerely believe that nothing really bad can happen in a place full of books.”
― M. K. Haka

“Think of this small book as a passport, a document that details the dogs and people who have traveled far and wide, and somehow, miraculously, found their way back to where they belong - to dog heaven, book heaven, reader heaven. Home.”
― Ann Patchett, The Shop Dogs of Parnassus

“Light, air, and faint classical music filled the store. My shoulders relaxed. I breathed easier in a room full of books, as if the paper retained the capacity of the trees they'd once been. So many books filled this room, more than in my own or my parent's or our living room, even though we had a wall of built-in shelves. The shop had alleys of books, towering cases of books. You could get lost here. You could be found.”
― Hannah Reynolds, The Summer of Lost Letters

“Conventional wisdom suggests that for bookstores to survive, they need to sell heaps of sidelines (higher-margin nonbook merchandise), host near-daily events, maximize social media, and leverage technology. The Three Lives' simplicity is its brilliance. The tiny bookstore is filled with books and books and books and books....And so, while the same books can be bought from Amazon, often at lower prices, Three Lives offers what an internet behemoth cannot: people, conversation, books to be held and happened upon, floors that creak, atmosphere.”
― Evan Friss, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

“Whether in mysteries or memoirs, travelogues or true-crime tales, romances or rom-coms, horror or history, bookstores can be more than just passive backdrops. Bookstores can be actors. Bookstores, even the little ones, can shape the world around them. They already have.”
― Evan Friss, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

“The business is in trouble again because of the modern world. People are watching nonsense on their phones and ordering books online. If that keeps up, places like this might cease to exist."
Apparently, he did have some understanding of the difficulties her mother had been having.
Dorothy's face drained of color. "No," she said. "Bookstores are magic.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“None of the bookstores or libraries he'd visit are open, so that knocks out three-quarters of his life right there.”
― Brandy Colbert, Little & Lion

“You can find new ideas in old bookstores as most old books are not sold in new bookstores!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Point me to a bookstore where the owners, managers, and salespeople know and love books, though they don't know exactly where everything is by chart or abstract arrangement; a store that has private places to take a book for a few minutes of examination, where the bright light won't expose me completely and where I can be deliriously lost in contemplation.”
― Thomas Moore

“For å tre inn i Gleditsch' bokhandel. Hyllemeter på hyllemeter med bøker. Himmelen slik den fortoner seg på jorden.”
― Tore Renberg, Lungeflyteprøven - forsvar for en ung kvinne som var mistenkt for spedbarnsdrap

“When she found the bookstore, she walked inside, then stopped and took a long, happy breath.”
― Jasmine Guillory, By the Book

“She loved that moment when she walked into a bookstore. Books were stacked everywhere, with friendly little signs directing you to local authors or signed copies or bestsellers.”
― Jasmine Guillory, By the Book

“When she finally left the bookstore, it was with two new books in her bag, a smile on her face, and a warm, happy feeling in her chest.”
― Jasmine Guillory, By the Book

“Am devine Romance Author
Also, I used to help other authors to achieve their goals.”
― Devine, I Love Writing: Mini Notebook For Writters, Students and Nurses

“Sloane inhaled deeply as she stepped into the bookstore. A joyous scent filled her nostrils. She loved the smell of books. Clean and crisp and woodsy and yet not like a man. Sloane's lips quirked.
There weren't many places that ranked above bookstores for her. So many adventures waited on the glorious wooden shelves.”
― Jamie Wesley, A Legend in the Baking

“Truly the single thing that would be best for the the bookstore industry is Medicare for All.”
― Danny Caine, How to Resist Amazon and Why

“Because when you enter bookstores
books fall off of shelves into your open palms
Because you ask questions of the universe
the world opens before you like a page”
― Glenis Redmond

“One of the great things about the bookstore ... was that people like him were there—writers who'd been around, who weren't necessarily rich or famous, but who had lived sensational lives and made people like Kurt and myself believe that maybe we could, too.”
― Jeremy Mercer, Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

“Joy is the enhancement of happiness through knowledge. We as booksellers have more of an opportunity to spread that joy through the books we present and those we find meaningful.”
― Paul Yamazaki, Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale

“Dust dances in the light
like tiny ghosts of stories.
I open a yellowed page—
your handwriting
from another lifetime. The shopkeeper pretends
not to see my tears.
He wraps the book
in silence.
I carry it home
like a wound
that refuses to heal”
― Avijeet Das , A Handful of Shuilis

“Benjamin Franklin understood that books could be revolutionary, that what colonists read shaped what colonists thought and, in turn, shaped the course of human events.”
― Evan Friss, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

“Words. That’s why people need our bookstore.”
― Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

“The House of COMMON SENSE and the Home of PROPER PROPAGANDA.”
― Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

“Tilly has always thought of bookshops as a gathering place. All those books lined up neatly on the shelves like potential friends she just hasn't met yet.”
― Libby Page