#books

"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."

"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"

"Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having."

"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."

"He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid."

"I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level."

"anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."

"I read a book one day and my whole life was changed."

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

"She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on."

"Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end."

"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."

"I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things."

"There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different."

"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

"Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)"

"Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places."

"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."

"[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."