Bookstoresthis Quotes & Sayings

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so — Aleister Crowley

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. — John Burns

I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while - I admit it - but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them. — J.D. Salinger

The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful guidance of Bharat Tandon of the University of East Anglia. Belknap has once again done its end of the job superbly: the book is a physical treat-luxuriantly over-sized, heavy with quality paper and solid binding, decked out in a beautiful cover and dozens of well-chosen illustrations throughout. This is one of the prettiest Jane Austen volumes available in bookstoresthis season. — Steve Donoghue

Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not. — Sandy Blair

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.
Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt. — Michelle Paver