books

"A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way."

"There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading."

"Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring."

"Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off."

"I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed."

"Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators."

"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."

"There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees."

"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."

"But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me."

"Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it."

"Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

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

"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."

"In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)"

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."

"She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all."

"أَعَزُّ مَكانٍ في الدُنَى سَرجُ سابِحٍوخَيرُ جَليسٍ في الزَمانِ كتـــــابُ"