#books

"Donde no hay libros hace frío. Vale para las casas, las ciudades, los países. Un frío cataclismo, un páramo de amnesia"

"I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."

"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

"Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves."

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

"As always, one of her books was next to her."

"Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth."

"A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."

"Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam"

"I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books."

"Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal."

"those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers..."

"Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book."

"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."

"Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives."

"The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it."

"Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony."

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

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."