{"quotes":[{"text":"A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbidden and where such an evil thing as a tax-collector may be forgotten and, peradventure, forgiven.","author":"E. Norman Torry","tags":["bibliophile","libraries","library","reading","tax-collector"],"id":6707,"author_id":"E.+Norman+Torry"},{"text":"A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages.","author":"Laura Whitcomb","tags":["bibliophile","book","books","dreams","library"],"id":11887,"author_id":"Laura+Whitcomb"},{"text":"We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.","author":"Kevin Smokler","tags":["bibliophile","bibliophiles","books","fun","reader","reading"],"id":14300,"author_id":"Kevin+Smokler"},{"text":"I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.","author":"Gabrielle Zevin","tags":["bibliophile","book","book-lover","book-stores","books","gabrielle-zevin","the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry"],"id":22430,"author_id":"Gabrielle+Zevin"},{"text":"I don't like playing playstation. It seems like a waste of time to me. Reading, instead, leaves something inside you.","author":"Mattia Caldara","tags":["bibliophile","bookworm","football","sports"],"id":45872,"author_id":"Mattia+Caldara"},{"text":"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.","author":"Gustave Flaubert","tags":["bibliophile","books","literature","reading"],"id":48515,"author_id":"Gustave+Flaubert"},{"text":"...Maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...Priorities....At present.'Nonsense,' the bookseller said. 'There's always time to appreciate a good book.","author":"Greg Cox","tags":["adventure","bibliophile","librarians","the-librarains","the-librarians-and-the-lost-lamp"],"id":53010,"author_id":"Greg+Cox"},{"text":"Shara was already an avid reader by then, but she had never realized until that moment what books meant, the possibility they presented: you could protect them forever, store them up like engineers store water, endless resources of time and knowledge snared in ink, tied down to paper, layered on shelves.... Moments made physical, untouchable, perfect, like preserving a dead hornet in crystal, one drop of venom forever hanging from its stinger.She felt overwhelmed. It was--she briefly thinks of herself and Vo, reading together in the library--a lot like being in love for the first time.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["bibliophile","books","libraries","love"],"id":73128,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["bibliophile","bibliophiles","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","bookworm","library-books"],"id":89990,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"},{"text":"... Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory.","author":"Carlos Ruiz Zafón","tags":["bibliophile","books","feelings"],"id":99470,"author_id":"Carlos+Ruiz+Zaf%C3%B3n"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}