books

"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."

"فإني قرأت كتاباً في تعريف الجمال كثيرة، فلم اجد احد من تعريف طاغور: "إن الجمال هو الاخلاص"

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

"So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!"

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"

"Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers."

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."

"Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name."

"I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?"

"[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them."

"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."

"Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]"

"What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do."

"Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica."

"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."

"Only five books tonight, Mommy,"she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!"

"As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air."

"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads."

"My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind"

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."