#books

"For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die."

"أَعَزُّ مَكانٍ في الدُنَى سَرجُ سابِحٍوخَيرُ جَليسٍ في الزَمانِ كتـــــابُ"

"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."

"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare."

"After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels."

"Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering."

"The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly."

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

"It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd."

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

"Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony."

"Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?"Whoever it was, I agree with him."

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

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

"I only want power so I can get books."

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

"The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves."

"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."

"Of course I loved books more than people."