#reading

"All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure."

"I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language."

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

"You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ."

"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."

"They're book addicts."

"When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener."

"As always, one of her books was next to her."

"Patience is a virtue not a vice."

"I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page."

"I even love the smell of books."

"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."

"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

"Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach."

"هو لا يفهم أن نفسيتي كإناء من "الكريستال"الرقيق تكفيه نقرة جافة ليتصدع إلى الأبد. لا، هو لا يفهم أن جهود حياته بأكملها لن تعيد الإناء إلى نقاءه الأصلي."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."

"Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?"

"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."

"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."