books

"Reading one book is like eating one potato chip."

"... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul."

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold."

"Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!''Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!"

"There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"

"I read in self-defense."

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

"Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying."

"Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name."

"It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians."

"Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."

"Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world."

"I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books."

"I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."

"Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words."

"When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life."

"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."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."