books

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

"When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf."

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

"Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most."

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

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."

"What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud."

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book."

"When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism."

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

"I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time."

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

"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."

"One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown."

"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."

"You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line."

"But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me."

"The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career."

"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."