Bookish Atmosphere Quotes

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

You walk into BookCon, and everybody is so excited... it's just paradise.

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have family dinners where we all sat there reading. It wasn't because we didn't like each other. We just liked reading. The person who made my reading list until my late teen years was my mom.

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

I always wanted to grow up in a house full of books, English books, and I wanted the sort of fireplaces that worked, overstuffed chairs, that whole kind of fantasy of a bookish New England life. So the library gave me that; for the hours that I was there, I was surrounded by that atmosphere that I craved in my life.

A house without books is like a room without windows.