It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
Helene HanffI 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 HanffWhat fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?
Helene HanffWhy is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?
Helene Hanff