Thought for the Day ...but when you....

[Paul Whybrow]

..”but when you held one of those volumes in your hands, you were leafing through another person's life. Someone else had once loved that story, too. Someone else had carried that book in a backpack, devoured it over breakfast, mopped up that coffee stain at a Paris café, cried herself to sleep after that last chapter.”

Jodi Picoult

(from The Storyteller)

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

That's why I like new books: no coffee stains, no crumpled pages, no underlining or notes in margins and no corner turnovers by someone who doesn't use a bookmark.

 

[Peyton Stafford]

That's why I like used books: sweet coffee stains, and handwritten love notes on dog-eared pages.