Ode to My Bookshelf: “In the End, We All Become Stories.” –Margaret Atwood

Ode to My Bookshelf: “In the End, We All Become Stories.”  –Margaret Atwood

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.   –Rainer Maria Rilke

A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him.   –Walter Mosley, crime fiction novelist

Between a bookcase and a grocery cart, she pretty much knew who you were.  –Louise Penny author Canadian mysteries

I don’t know if you can put bookshelves in the kitchen or if it is against federal law, but the great thing about a middle-aged woman is that she makes her own rules.  –Lisa Scottoline, author legal mysteries

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.  –Roald Dahl

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.  –10th c physician Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon  

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