books

"As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air."

"It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth."

"If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""Who's Magnus?"Max inquired."He's a warlock,"said Alec."A sexy, sexy warlock,"Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury."But warlocks are bad,"protested Max, looking baffled."Exactly,"said Isabelle."

"Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end."

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad."

"I have never been able to resist a book about books."

"Of course I loved books more than people."

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

"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"

"There are lots of great ideas in my book, but as a cohesive unit, my book is only held together with glue at the spine. Or it would be, if it weren’t an ebook."

"I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone."

"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."

"Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth."

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."

"Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous"

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is."

"I find Bukowski to be so edgy, gritty, and daring that he oozes romance, and if couples read him in bed they would appreciate what they have."

"Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being."