books

"Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real."

"I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised."

"A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."

"I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books."

"Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can."

"Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint."

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"Libraries raised me."

"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

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

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books"

"They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One,"the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing."Okay,"said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat."He frowned."That can be his Indian name,"I suggested."

"A book is as private and consensual as sex."

"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."

"One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation."

"My grandfather says that's what books are for,"Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch."

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."

"There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.Someone had stolen a book."