books

"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books."

"We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]"

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)"

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

"There are two typos of people in this world: those who can edit, and those who can't."

"A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out."

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."

"If your library is not "unsafe,"it probably isn't doing its job."

"A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book."

"I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."

"Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?"

"The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly."

"You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up."

"People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile."

"أمقت تلك المسافات التي تفصلني عنك ،أتذمر من تلك المواقيت التي تسرقني منك ..أسخط على أعين تتأملك / على أنامل تلمسكعلى أنفاسك وهي تستنشقك !على نبضاتك وهي تستشعرك ، على ثيابك وهي تعانقك"

"Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness."

"Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time."

"I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them."

"* نجلاء .. نجلااااء ...نجلااااااااء ... .- الساعة الآن التاسعة صباحاً إنهضيوإنفضي عن وسادتكِ رذاذ الأحلام ،كان هذا صوتها أمي لتفيقني من ذاكالحلم الذي كنت أهذي به كل ليلة !تمنيت حينها لو أصيبت ذاكرتي بغيبوبة عنواقع لا يحتويه ،عن واقع لا يعانق وجوده !أفقت وكعادتي أمضي إلى طريق مجهولومسافات غريبة أحمل حقائب أحلاميوأجمع بها لوحاتي وأمل أتسكع بهعلى دهاليز مدينتي الباريسية !"

"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."