#books

"An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as if her name were not a name but a question. Or perhaps that it wasn’t how he had said it, and she was wrong, and she’d heard a question simply because the sound of him speaking her name made her wish that she were his answer."

"That's what this country needs -- more books!"

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

"That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you."

"A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose."

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."

"Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying."

"Only five books tonight, Mommy,"she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!"

"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)"

"There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere."

"Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading."

"That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment."

"Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks."

"What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do."

"Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them."-Anne Shirley"

"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."

"No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books."

"Sleep is good, he said, and books are better."

"I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read."

"... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul."