#books

"I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day."

"Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge."

"You is getting nosier than a parker."

"Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about."

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."

"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."

"And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet."

"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."

"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."

"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."

"You're either reading a book or you're not."

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

"Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians."

"I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?"

"The world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.You must trust me.I am telling you a story."

"I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself."

"Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing oneself to the ideas contained in even the most controversial of books is a good thing."

"What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books."

"How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me."

"I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page"