books

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition."

"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book."

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read."

"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed."

"I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone."

"Books are a narcotic."

"It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd."

"Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end."

"You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened."

"He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain."

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."

"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."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"She reads a lot of books. Good things, books."

"A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear."

"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain"