#books

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

"The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career."

"If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be."

"The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win."

"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."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...>Time to read is always time stolen. <...>Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125"

"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart."

"[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up."

"A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers."

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"You're never alone when you're reading a book."

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."

"What does it mean?” Flynn turns to gaze at me, eyes finally meeting mine.I find myself smiling because I know exactly what it means. “It means the clouds are clearing on Avon."

"Be awesome! Be a book nut!"

"و من الممكن أن تمل القراءة طبيعي فعندما يمل الإنسان كل شئ تكون الكتب أول الضحايا"

"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."

"Great books make great being."