„She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.“
Quelle: The Goose Girl
Shannon Hale109
American fantasy novelist 1974Ähnliche Zitate
— Genevieve Cogman novelist and game designer 1972
Quelle: The Invisible Library
— Scott Douglas American wheelchair tennis player 1963
Quelle: Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
— Eudora Welty, buch One Writer's Beginnings
One Writer's Beginnings(1984)
Kontext: It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
— Dan Simmons, buch The Fall of Hyperion
Quelle: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 32 (p. 269)
— Zilpha Keatley Snyder American writer of children's fiction 1927 - 2014
Quelle: The Velvet Room
— Joe Hill Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World 1879 - 1915
Quelle: NOS4A2
„She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.“
— Elizabeth Peters American author and egyptologist 1927 - 2013
Quelle: Houses of Stone
„One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.“
— Richelle Mead, buch The Indigo Spell
Quelle: The Indigo Spell
„opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.“
— Diane Setterfield, buch The Thirteenth Tale
Quelle: The Thirteenth Tale
— E. Lockhart, buch We Were Liars
Quelle: We Were Liars
