The Retro Book Cafe

A room without books is like a body without a soul

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Books are mirrors you only see in them what you already have inside you.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.