#books

"...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again."

"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."

"Inexperience people think that books will lead the one of intellect to understanding. But the ignoramus doesn't know that in these books are ambiguos that will confuse even the most intelligent of people. If you try to learn this knowledge without a teacher you will go astray and affairs will become so confusing to you that you will be more astray than Toma*, the physician.*توما الحكيم"

"Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam"

"Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!"

"Computers don't kill books; people do."

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

"What better place to kill time than a library?"

"The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself."

"She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page."

"Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread."

"those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers..."

"There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured."

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

"What does it mean?” Flynn turns to gaze at me, eyes finally meeting mine.I find myself smiling because I know exactly what it means. “It means the clouds are clearing on Avon."

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

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

"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room."