books

"Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written."

"When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life."

"I read a book one day and my whole life was changed."

"My bookcase is all yours."I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world."

"Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved."

"The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."

"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book."

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."

"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."

"What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!"

"What an author doesn't know could fill a book."

"How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me."

"The Book of Life, I’m still writing it—both literally and literarily. So far I’ve written the Table of Contents. Right now it’s more of a coffee table."

"Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book."

"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."

"I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language."

"When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light."

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries."