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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.
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Quotes about Books & Bookstores
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~ V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- “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.”
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~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
- “His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”
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~ Elizabeth Tallent, Two Women
- “People open bookstores because they want their souls back.”
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~ Rebecca Raisin, The Little Bookshop on the Seine
- “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.”
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~ Peter Ackroyd
- “What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?”
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~ Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting
- “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.”
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Quotes about Coffee, Tea & Cafes
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~ Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management
- “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.”
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~ Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead
- “Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way.
- "It's three thirty in the morning."
- "Okay. Want coffee?”
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~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- “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.”
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~ Samuel Johnson
- “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.”
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~ Michael Benzehabe
- “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.”
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