“Os livros mudam o destino das pessoas”

“Ninguém quer extraviar um livro. Preferimos perder um anel, um relógio, o chapéu-de-chuva, do que o livro cujas páginas não mais leremos mas que conservam, na sonoridade do seu título, uma antiga e talvez perdida emoção.”

“It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.”

“For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.”

“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.”

“I fuck with every book, and if I don’t leave a mark, there’s no orgasm.”

“Livros não mudam o mundo. Livros mudam pessoas. Pessoas mudam o mundo.”