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. LewisOld 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 WilligAlthough 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 PhillipsTag: magic old-books archives voices
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 LondonTag: happiness smells old-books
Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.
C.S. LewisTag: reading education old-books
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