Quotes About Books

Isabelle knew the volume. Les Fleurs du mal. The Flowers of Evil. It was the book they used to signal a meeting. "I am looking for something else by this author," Anouk said, exhaling smoke. "I am sorry, Madame. I have no more Baudelaire. Some Verlaine, perhaps? Or Rimbaud?

anyone who saw the magic in books had to be good.

She doesn't understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing. It is quite beyond me, in fact, why she became a librarian in the first place.

My room is lined with books, most of them stacked in precarious piles on the bowing bookshelves Louis assembled years ago. They are filled with other people's stories, and I've spent my life disappearing into them. Sometimes, when the nights are dark and silent and I'm alone, I wonder if I would have survived without the escape their pages offered me from reality. Then again, perhaps they just gave me an excuse to duck out of my own life.

Books, wherever they were in the world, always felt like home to her.

those "who realize that books are magic… will have the brightest lives.

Once you've fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn't belong.

incredible how familiar the place feels, though I've never been here. Once you've fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn't belong.

Libraries are very magical places.

Please, don't apologize. These are the moments I live for. Reuniting a book with its rightful owner can be magical.

Eva refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.

refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.

When nightfall weaves its way through the New York Public Library, it is nothing shy of magic. Long stretched of sunlight on marble morph from white to yellow to pink to orange to red, the dim slowly, completely. Shadows yawn and stretch awake. Eighty-five miles of books on shelves blink away their daytime sleep, for book are often nocturnal creatures, ready to play. To roam. To hunt.

The moral of this story is that many amazing, sometimes hidden, things happen in a library. What's the story behind yours? What's your tale? The world is waiting to hear your Once Upon a Time.

Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.

He felt overwelmed when he thought of all the books he hadn't read, all the books he wanted to read, and all the books he would want to read. Not to mention all the books that he hadn't heard of. Those dismayed him the most.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books, not everybody has to do it. Music is not for everybody.

He had kept Bihzad illiterate, so that he would discover his own secrets before he discovered the secrets in books, before words and numbers spoilt his love for glowing images.

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.