“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.”— David Burr Gerrard Related Quotes “All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn’t read to escape it; you read to discover it.”— Brittainy C. Cherry “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”— Virginia Woolf “They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which wasn’t really enough of a sound to distract them from the awkwardness of the moment.”— Gideon Defoe