books

"There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul."

"It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really."

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

"There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature."

"Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver,"she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles."

"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

"Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost."

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

"No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it"

"Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!"

"There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored."

"Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper."

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

"Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!"

"I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too."

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."

"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

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

"One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer."

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."