books

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them."

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."

"In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love."

"Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name."

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."

"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room."

"Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter,"she'd told him, "and spend all night talking and never go to bed."

"I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…"

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

"My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind"

"We live and breathe words."

"That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox."

"So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone."

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"

"Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes"

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity."

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time."

"There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book."