books

"Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read."

"You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book."

"You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe."

"The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence."

"One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries."

"He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid."

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

"An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise."

"The covers of this book are too far apart."

"Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us."

"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."

"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."

"Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

"Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches."

"Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book."

"Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional."

"Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal."

"Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books."

"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."