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When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
– Elizabeth Kostova

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  1. And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? – Elizabeth Kostova
  2. I wish to resist the temptation to kiss…By super magic animals (Song: The Temptation)A visual poem about unfulfilled love… – Super magic animals
  3. Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil. – Billy Graham
  4. It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home. – Elizabeth Kostova
  5. You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. – Elizabeth Kostova
  6. Recently abandoned women can be complicated. – Elizabeth Kostova
  7. It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it. – Elizabeth Kostova
  8. … I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad. – Elizabeth Kostova
  9. To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history. – Elizabeth Kostova
  10. The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That’s all you need. – Elizabeth Kostova
  11. It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. – Elizabeth Kostova
  12. He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight. – Elizabeth Kostova
  13. In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don’t know. – Elizabeth Kostova
  14. If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived. – Elizabeth Kostova
  15. As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. – Elizabeth Kostova
  16. Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle. – Shannon L Alder
  17. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt
  18. Well to be fair, I said, I mean she probably can’t handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn’t have to handle it. And you do. – John Green
  19. Strength of character isn’t always about how much you can handle before you break, it’s also about how much you can handle after you’ve broken. – Robert Tew
  20. If a guy can’t even handle my words, I don’t think he can handle me as a person. – Anna Bayes
  21. I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. – LM Montgomery
  22. I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief – Euripides
  23. … it’s not just for a friend. I mean, Reign is a friend, but… I like him. A lot. And I’d like it if he was more than just a friend. – Parker Elliot
  24. If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend! – Elizabeth George
  25. If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend! – Elizabeth George
  26. No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle! – Elizabeth George
  27. Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability. – Elizabeth George
  28. Each loss brings growth with it, and learning to handle new experiences and taking charge of your needs is part of the transformative process. – Elizabeth Berrien
  29. Each loss brings growth with it, and learning to handle new experiences and taking charge of your needs is part of the transformative process. – Elizabeth Berrien
  30. CUSTOMER (to her friend): What’s this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books? – Jen Campbell
  31. Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine. – Patrick Rothfuss
  32. Jimmy Boom Semtex says Semtex goes BOOM! Handle his books with care. – Jimmy Boom Semtex
  33. Learn to handle books, you will learn how to enjoy life. – Aman Jassal
  34. The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. – Elizabeth McCracken
  35. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
  36. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
  37. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  38. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
  39. To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
  40. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter

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