#reading

"Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion."

"He is the only option for better living."

"Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head."

"A delight to read is a great treasure."

"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."

"The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."

"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra."

"The world was hers for the reading."

"People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again."

"Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore."

"I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself."

"When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it."

"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

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

"The more you read, the better you are informed."

"Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list."

"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."

"All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."

"و من الممكن أن تمل القراءة طبيعي فعندما يمل الإنسان كل شئ تكون الكتب أول الضحايا"

"If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space."