“You're never lonely with a book.” #MarleneDietrich #socobooks

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” #ErnestHemingway #socobooks #shelfiesaturday #saturdayshelfie #hemingway

R.I.P., Daniel Johnston. You made Austin a nicer, more interesting place for so many reasons. #socobooks #danieljohnston

Don’t get even, get MAD. We can help. #socobooks #madmagazine

“A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'...” #ChristopherHitchens #Hitch22 #AMemoir #socobooks

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see — or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.” #AliceWalker #socobooks #shelfiesaturday #saturdayshelfie

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” #LemonySnicket #socobooks #fridayfeels

“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised.” #DanielDefoe #robinsoncrusoe #socobooks #everymanslibrary #childrensclassics

Kendra @herdogearedbooks, so true...we so fogged up...thank goodness for the clarity within! Love your post. Thanks! ♥️📚💕 #socobooks

Don Herron, born in Brenham and a graduate of UT Austin, created this astonishing book of angels by using color, symbols, and illustration to convey how he felt they should appear. He’s also known for his “Bathtub Series”: photos of the well-known in their tubs. #socobooks

Mojave chief: an amazing photo from “North American Indians” (1944), volume 4 of “The Smithsonian Series,” a 12-volume set. #socobooks #nativeamericanhistory

In 1963 Remedios Varo died of a heart attack. André Breton commented that the death made her "the sorceress who left too soon." 🙌 #socobooks #art #surrealism

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” #HarperLee #tokillamockingbird . (But we actually do love breathing also.) . #socobooks #shelfiesaturday #saturdayshelfie #hajin #laurierking #jerzykosinski #garcialorca #irismurdoch #thomasmann #daphnedumaurier #larrymcmurtry #tonimorrison #vsnaipaul #shelfie

“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.” #hgwells Find these beautiful, dystopian, vintage, near-fine H. G. Wells paperbacks in the shop tomorrow. $20 apiece! Wells, what are you waiting for?!? #socobooks #sf #fantastictales

“All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.” #TomRobbins #evencowgirlsgettheblues #socobooks

“Part I: There Was a Simple and Grand Life Picnics. Sandwiches with hard-boiled eggs and cucumbers. Lemon ices. Flip-flops. Sheets and pillowcases drying on the clothesline. Blindingly white. Starched and ironed. Later, there were books and chairs...” #mairakalman #myfavoritethings #socobooks