books

"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."

"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."

"From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."

"Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun."

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."

"Libraries raised me."

"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."

"An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page."

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

"How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"

"And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet."

"A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul."

"You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book."

"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

"Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers."

"This book comes with its very own logo (logo sold separately)."

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

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal"

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it."

"The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important."