Quotes About Books

Helping to match people to the book that would change their life, or make them fall in love, or get over a love affair gone wrong. And for the children, she could show them where to dive into a crocodile-infested river, or fly through the stars, or open the door of a wardrobe...

Now she knew that there were people -people everywhere- who cared about and loved books as much as she did.

Nina had been told regularly since she was a child that she needed more fresh air, at which she would take her book and clamber up the apple tree at the bottom of their tatty garden, away from the car her father was always tinkering with but had never driven in all the years of her childhood—she wondered what had happened to it—and hide there, braced against the trunk, her feet swinging, burying herself in Enid Blyton or Roald Dahl until she was allowed back inside again.

still believe reading is the best form of direct brain-to-brain communication humans have yet figured out

Books are absolutely the thing in my opinion, or as the old saying goes: whatever gets you through the night (which I should say is also books. Books get you through the night).)

Nina wondered what on Earth it would be to have that much money; to buy that many books without worrying.

You've moved an entire country away with a big bunch of books and a van. said Surinder. I already think you are totally stupid.

You know, on the bus, everyone used to read books. But then they were fiddling on their phones or those big phones, I don't know what they're called.

And recommend them to other people: books for the brokenhearted and the happy, and people excited to be going on vacation, and people who need to know they aren't alone in the universe, and books for children who really like monkeys, and, well, everything really. And to go places where I'm needed.

She'd read lots of books about people finding new lives, which hadn't helped her mood either, had made her feel more and more trapped and stuck where she was, as if everyone except her was managing to get away and do interesting things.

from Jenny Colgan Reading

For most of her life, the outdoors had simply been something to shelter from whilst she got on with her reading.

Nina, I have tried to be patient. I have tried to help when things go wrong and you buy a book and things go well and you buy a book and it rains so you bring home some books and it's sunny so you get some books. But .

love whatever you read. Enrich your life with books, of any type. If you aren't enjoying a book, try another – life is far too short.* I'm still trying to read every book in the world. You're a reader. You understand.

No!" said Sofia. "I read! Self-help can be very useful." She gave her sister a meaningful look. "Really?" said Carmen. "As useful as Rainbow Rowell? Or Douglas Adams? I doubt it.

After years of working in public service, it had come as a bit of a surprise to her how genuinely interested she was in running a business; seeing what worked, looking at stock, and, of course, matching the right book to the right person. It was the same joy she had always felt at the library, but somehow, watching people leaving with books they could keep forever was even more profound.

Porque um dia com leitura é sempre um pouquinho melhor do que um dia sem leitura, e eu desejo a você uma infinidade de dias maravilhosos.

Quando ficava triste, os livros eram seu consolo; quando se sentia só, eles eram seus amigos. Eram eles que cuidavam do seu coração partido e a encorajavam a manter a esperança quando estava na pior.

Oh and I also got cross at a dinner once when this woman was going on and on about how she would never read on download, that there was nothing like a real book and – I promise I normally am never rude to people but she was being truly insufferable – I said, 'Well, they're really only for people who read a lot' which was mean of me but quite satisfying also.

read. Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days.

Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days.

There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music - to breach the barrier, to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.

Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days. Now

Books had been her solace when she was sad, her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it was broken, and encouraged her to hope when she was down.