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'Tis no small miracle how God has so long preserved and protected this book; for the devil and the world are sore foes to it.
~ Unknown
I copied the address into my address book, erasing an earlier one that had not been good for very long. No address of his was good for very long and the paper in my address book where his address is written is thin and soft from being erased so often.
~ Lydia Davis
As personagens são como vampiros, cravam os caninos na nossa jugular e quando amanhece, voltam aos seus sepulcros até que anoiteça de novo. O fim do livro seria a pedra que ponho sobre esses visitantes. Definitivamente? Não. Um dia, de repente, com outro nome e outras feições e em outro tempo volta mascarada a mesma personagem, elas gostam da vida. Como nós.
~ Unknown
ONE OF THE most popular books in Poland in the summer of 1939 was Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind.
~ Unknown
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.
~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Yet I have come to distrust book jackets calculated to prick desire like a Bloomingdale's window, as if you could wear what you read.
~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Si a literatura musical brasileira fosse vasta, eu não publicaria este livro. Porém muitas vezes tenho sofrido nos olhos dos meus discípulos a angústia dos que desejam ler. Si por um momento eu lhes minorar essa angústia, este livro terá cumprido o seu destino, pois foi isso unicamente o que pretendi.
~ Unknown
Thank you in advance for your interest in this book.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that live invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.
~ Madeleine Thien
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
~ John Donne
Do you know I think it is just terrible," said Mrs. Merivale when she had done carving, "the way you fellows wont tell us any of your experiences over there. . . . Lots of them must have been remarkably interesting. Jimmy I should think you'd write a book about your experiences.
~ John Dos Passos
I am currently reading, The Broker by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better
~ John Grisham
His book, The Dreams of Ada, was published by Viking in April 1987 and was greatly anticipated by the town.
~ John Grisham
O. J. Simpson theory of legal fees: I'm not paying you; you're lucky to be here; go make a buck with your book.
~ John Grisham
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
~ John Irving
Wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book with her. If only she kept reading it and reading it...
~ John Irving
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it—perhaps your favorite sentence—to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
~ John Irving
I must part with you for my whole life, she read, with horror. I must begin a new existence amongst strange faces and strange scenes. The truth of that closed the book for her, forever.
~ John Irving
wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book with her. If only she'll keep reading it, and reading it
~ John Irving
Dr. Larch pointed out that Melony had taken Jane Eyre with her; he accepted this as a hopeful sign—wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book with her. If only she'll keep reading it, and reading it, Larch thought.
~ John Irving
And Juan Diego had selected this particular book because it was in English; he'd wanted more practice reading English, though his less-than-rapt audience (Lupe and Rivera and the disagreeable dog Dirty White) might have understood him better en español.
~ John Irving
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it, -perhaps your favorite sentence- to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that perhaps moved you to tears.
~ John Irving
book is always in motion – from the general to the specific, from the particular to the whole, and back again. Good reading
~ John Irving
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
~ Mem Fox