Quotes About Books

What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they would not trust or want to listen to one another; but each is a piece of a stained-glass whole without which I couldn't make sense to myself, or to the world outside.

I libri pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

Like in those Bunny Austen books you read where rabbits live in great parks with manor hutches?

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva.

So are you going ahead with your plan?" Danny demanded. "Yeah. Sure," Todd said. "I have to. They just took the weekend off. For sure. Tomorrow is school. That means more worms in my backpack, in my books, in my lunch." "Yuck," Danny murmured on the other end of the line.

You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.

Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. Excuse me, he said, but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging? What's snogging? Shane asked. Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?

The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them - or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia.

Delighted, Jess said. I think all houses should be stuffed with books. It makes them-- Homes? the doctor finished. You are quite the heretic, for someone in a Library uniform. Guilty.

No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.

Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.

With the right books, we can change everything.

This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.

You call us book lovers, and it's true. We are. And so are you, at heart. You believe in the power of them to change the world.

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.

You know it's desperate, she said. Shane is going to the library.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.

Books represented home to him, and around every wall, the doctor's shelves were full to bulging, a haphazard organization of varied colors of binding, sizes, shapes. There was a happy disorder about it that made Jess feel something settle inside he hadn't even known was restless.

Library rules the world, son.

He'd grown so addicted to the feel of those books—the individual differences in the bindings, the leather or fabric covers, the weight of papers, the smell. They were a very different experience than these Blanks, which all felt so . . . sterile, somehow. Words that could be readily dismissed and replaced didn't have the same moral heft to them, to him

The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.