“I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded – unless I read the book.”
“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”
“There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .”
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”
“I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I'd be a drunk too.”
“opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.”