Jeeves in the Bookshop

"If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind." - Sebastian Faulks

The Age of Reason in the Bookshop

"When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values..." - Simone de Beauvoir

Afterglow of Creation in the Bookshop

“Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.” ~Colette