#books

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

"I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding."

"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."

"Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes"

"Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls."

"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."

"Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read."

"Literature is news that stays news."

"She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self."

"I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days."

"We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read."

"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."

"A house without books is like a room without windows."

"How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library."

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

"Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators."

"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."

"A good book is an event in my life."

"I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning."

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