#books

"if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."

"Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves."

"I think a good book is a good book forever.I don't think they get less good because times change."

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)"

"Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining."

"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head."

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."

"Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together."

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

"I plan to learn enough to read you like a book."

"It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd."

"There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet."

"Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page."

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books"

"I’m a book lover. I’ve probably already fucked a whole library."

"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul."

"Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them."

"It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.."

"In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian."