I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
Helene HanffStichwörter: books book-lover
I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you're a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries.
Helene HanffHistory, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.
Helene HanffMy problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realise I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.
Helene HanffAnd for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.
Helene HanffI'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.
Helene HanffIt looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.
Helene HanffStichwörter: reading
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
Helene HanffStichwörter: books library bookstore
Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?
Helene HanffStichwörter: book-lovers
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
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