It is a good rule after reading a new book,
never to allow yourself another new one
till you have read an old one in between.
~C.S. Lewis
Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire's own heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they'd learned, what they'd seen, what they'd felt. Wasn't that magic?
~Christi Phillips, The Devlin Diary
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history;
wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.
~Lauren Willig
Old Books Smell Of:
A combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids
and a hint of vanilla over an underlying muskiness.
~Chemists of the University College London
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