“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”

“I even love the smell of books.”

“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”

“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

“The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)”

“My wealth is my shelf of books!”

“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”