And that’s the beauty of books. In so many ways, they never really end.
- Markus Zusak
Did you know that books are made up of compounds very very closely related to vanilla and rosin? That’s why as the book ages and begins to break down it releases that amazing, slightly sweet vanilla smell.
Packing goes much slower when you feel the urge to hold each book close to your face and thumb through the pages just for the smell. UNF.
Antiquarian bookshop, walking on Sunday / Librería de libros antiguos, paseando el domingo (ilustración de Richard Erdoes)
Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via thebooker)
