Quotes About Books

I'm honored by your concern. I would like To gather all of the books that contain The words mother and grief, set them aflame, And dance as they burn.

I didn't belong Because maybe I never wanted To belong. When everybody else danced and sang, I sat silently in my room with books, Books, and books. I used books for self-defense And as stealth bombers: I am better than you Because I have read more books than you; I am Beloved by these books; I am beloved by words.

Okay, so it's like each of these books is a mystery every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so more you need to learn.

Late at night I go out and listen to the wind. That's all the wisdom I need. I mean, I love books, but shoot, most of the world's wisdom is not contained in books.

She endured a contentious and passionate relationship with this library. The huge number of books confirmed how much magic she'd been denied for most of her life, and now she hungrily wanted to read every book on every shelf. An impossible task, to be sure, Herculean in its exaggeration, but Corliss wanted to read herself to death. She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. She

De repente comprendí que, si hay que tomarse en serio cada momento de un libro, entonces también hay que tomarse en serio cada momento de una vida.

I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life.

And I know there has never been a human being or a television show, no matter how great, that could measure up to a great book.

Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

How many books do you have here?" Corliss asked. "Two million, one hundred thousand, and eleven," the librarian said proudly, but Corliss was frightened. What happens to the world when that many books go unread? And what happens to the unread authors of those unread books?

They didn't have novels back then. (Tory) History says they didn't have books, yet what's this thing in my hand? It's square, bound paper that's been written on. Looks like a book to me. (Acheron) Thank you, Captain Sarcasm. How nice of you to join us again. (Tory)

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

He is the best, in my whole life i have only read his books!!!!!!

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.