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| Located in a quiet side-street in the sleepy neighborhood of Ashburn is a combination second hand books store and coffee house. | | Located in a quiet side-street in the sleepy neighborhood of Ashburn is a combination second hand books store and coffee house. | ||
+ | ==Employees== | ||
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| width=100 | <center>[[Image:HeloiseB4.jpg|x200px|Link=Heloise]]</center> | | width=100 | <center>[[Image:HeloiseB4.jpg|x200px|Link=Heloise]]</center> | ||
+ | | width=100 | '''[[Heloise]], Owner''' | ||
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− | | width=100 | ''' | + | | width=100 | <center>[[Image:Nisha.jpg|x200px|Link=Nisha]]</center> |
+ | | width=100 | '''[[Nisha]], Barista''' | ||
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+ | | width=100 | <center>[[Image:ElodieA1.png|x200px|Link=Elodie]]</center> | ||
+ | | width=100 | '''[[Elodie]], Books''' | ||
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== Room Descs == | == Room Descs == | ||
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> ~ '' V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue ''<br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>S</big>ome bookstores are organized, more gallery than shop. |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>S</big>ome are sterile, reserved for only the new and untouched. But not this one. |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>T</big>his shop is a labyrinth of stacks and shelves, texts stacked two, even three deep, |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>l</big>eather beside paper beside board. Her favorite kind of store, one that’s easy to get lost in.” |
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> ~ '' Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories ''<br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>H</big>is hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.” |
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> ~ '' Elizabeth Tallent, Two Women ''<br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>P</big>eople open bookstores because they want their souls back.” |
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> ~ '' Rebecca Raisin, The Little Bookshop on the Seine '' <br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>S</big>ome had been held aloft tepid rose-scented baths, and thickened and warped with moisture. |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>O</big>thers had child-like scrawls on the acknowledgement page, little fingers looking for a blank space to leave their mark. |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>T</big>hen there were the pristine novels, ones that had been read carefully, bookmarks used, |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>a</big>lmost like their owner barely pried the pages open so loathe were they to damage their treasure.” |
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> ~ '' Peter Ackroyd ''<br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>W</big>hat is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?” |
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> ~ '' Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting ''<br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>S</big>econd-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>a</big>nd have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>B</big>esides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>w</big>ho will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.” |
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== Quotes about Coffee, Tea & Cafes == | == Quotes about Coffee, Tea & Cafes == | ||
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> ~ '' Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management ''<br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>T</big>housands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>a</big>nd daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>t</big>hey may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions; |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>b</big>ut it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with.” |
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> '' ~ Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead ''<br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>W</big>ant coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way. |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">"<big>I</big>t's three thirty in the morning." |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">"<big>O</big>kay. Want coffee?” |
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> '' ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón ''<br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>I</big>nside, voices seemed to echo with shadows of other times. Accountants, dreamers, and would-be geniuses |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>s</big>hared tables with the spectres of Pablo Picasso, Isaac Albeniz, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Salvador Dali. |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>T</big>here any poor devil could pass for a historical figure for the price of a small coffee.” |
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> '' ~ Samuel Johnson ''<br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>A</big> hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>o</big>nly the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>w</big>ho with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.” |
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− | | class="title" | | + | | class="title" |<span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"> ~ '' Michael Benzehabe ''<br> |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;">“<big>S</big>he had walked from her little bungalow to Coffee & Tea. It was always filled with the |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>w</big>ell-educated, the complicated, the people who read books with captivating titles. |
− | : | + | : <span style="color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt;"><big>A</big> perfect place to ignore and be ignored. She found the anonymity delicious.” |
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