Uppercase Books & Underground Coffee

(Old Books & Hot Coffee) Owned by Heloise Room Descs Uppercase Books Underground Coffee Atmospheric Inspiration “Some bookstores are organized, more gallery than shop. Some are sterile, reserved for only the new and untouched. But not this one. This shop is a labyrinth of stacks and shelves, texts stacked two, even three deep, leather beside paper beside board. Her favorite kind of store, one that’s easy to get lost in.” ~ V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue “His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.” ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories “People open bookstores because they want their souls back.” ~ Elizabeth Tallent, Two Women “Some had been held aloft tepid rose-scented baths, and thickened and warped with moisture. Others had child-like scrawls on the acknowledgement page, little fingers looking for a blank space to leave their mark. Then there were the pristine novels, ones that had been read carefully, bookmarks used, almost like their owner barely pried the pages open so loathe were they to damage their treasure.” ~ Rebecca Raisin, The Little Bookshop on the Seine “What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?” ~ Peter Ackroyd “Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.” ~ Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting “Thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions; but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with.” ~ Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management “Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way. "It's three thirty in the morning." "Okay. Want coffee?” ~ Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead “Inside, voices seemed to echo with shadows of other times. Accountants, dreamers, and would-be geniuses shared tables with the spectres of Pablo Picasso, Isaac Albeniz, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Salvador Dali. There any poor devil could pass for a historical figure for the price of a small coffee.” ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón “A hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.” ~ Samuel Johnson “She had walked from her little bungalow to Coffee & Tea. It was always filled with the well-educated, the complicated, the people who read books with captivating titles. A perfect place to ignore and be ignored. She found the anonymity delicious.” ~ Michael Benzehabe