#books

"It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home."

"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."

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours."

"You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe."

"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."

"I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!"

"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't."

"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

"Unpacking books is a revelatory activity."

"Reading is reading - no matter what the material."

"And what is the use of a book,"thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"

"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop."

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read."

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

"My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving."

"Your mail could've waited."Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?"Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand."

"Great books make great being."

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

"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."