books

"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra."

"She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self."

"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."

"anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."

"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"القراءة المبالغ فيها لا تجعل منا أذكياء. بعض الناس يبتلعون الكتب, وهم يفعلون ذلك بدون فاصل للتفكير الضروري. وهو ضروري لكي يهضم المقروء ويبنى ويتبنى ويُفهم"

"Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really."

"Амьдрал гэж нэг иймэрхүү авсаархан ном байлаа гэхэд, санаандгүй сөхөхөд тааралдах тохиолдлын ганц өгүүлбэрт л уг номыг унших учир шалтгаан бүрэн шингээстэй бий."

"When I want to read a novel, I write one."

"Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together."

"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"

"When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation."

"Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life."

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

"The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more."

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."

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

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

"I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered."