books

"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."

"Apa gunanya banyak baca bukuKalau mulut kau bungkam melulu"

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them."

"From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood."

"Books may well be the only true magic."

"Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

"In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie."

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."

"Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace."

"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot."

"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."

"We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are."

"Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself."

"CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?"

"Being a writer is a good, good thing."

"The world must be all fucked up,"he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider."

"Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.-You're just making that up, Jean."

"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."

"When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness."