Quotes About Used Book Stores

#1. I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

Saul Williams

#2. I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.

Walter Mosley

#3. People can be, or can pose as, the enemies of God, but God will never be the enemy of any person. It is the terrible advantage children sometimes have over their fathers (and mothers).

Raniero Cantalamessa

#4. Anyone who has character leaves a mark on another.

Nora Roberts

#5. I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

Dizzy Dean

#6. Jace threw himself against the door. It didn't budge. He cursed. "My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health."
-Jace to Clary, pg.284-

Cassandra Clare

#7. Tenderness is the repose of passion.

Joseph Joubert

#8. It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#9. Looking through this intimate window, readers have a choice about their own lives. Will they guard their own internal landscapes or lay themselves bare for others to see?

Damali Ayo

#10. What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

Rachel Held Evans

#11. To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.

Douglas Wilson

#12. Nonconformity is an affront to those in the mainstream.

David Miller

#13. Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet.

Suzanne Woods Fisher