Flying Spaghetti Monster in the Bookshop

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

"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 Hanff

The Black Swan in the Bookshop

"Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination." - Anthony Burgess