books

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

"I plan to learn enough to read you like a book."

"Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words."

"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

"When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it."

"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."

"You're either reading a book or you're not."

"In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian."

"Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book."

"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this."

"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"ولو إستطعت أن أعود بعجلة الزمان إلى الوراء ،لما إخترتك لي عاشقاً !ولأبقيتك عابراً غريباً يزور مدائني دون أن يحدث بداخلي أي ضجيج !"

"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."

"And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?"

"Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity"

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."

"More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement."

"We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books."

"I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets."