#books

"Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin"

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."

"I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own."

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

"We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate."

"Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly"

"Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages..."

"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

"I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."

"Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!''Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!"

"You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself."

"In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend."

"I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people."

"Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read."

"I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day."

"For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately."

"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you."

"If you love books enough, books will love you back."

"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."