It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
("84, Charing Cross Road")
More Quotes from Helene Hanff:
Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.Helene Hanff
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
Helene Hanff
If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.
Helene Hanff
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
Helene Hanff
It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it as been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.
Helene Hanff
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.Ambrose Bierce
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
Al Lopez
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
Danielle Steel