Quotes About Books

I had read the baby books, of course, but could remember literally nothing but one fact: "babies are born without kneecaps." What the hell was I supposed to do with that information? Invite some gangster to take retribution against me by kneecapping my baby and then laugh when he realizes it's physically impossible? That was no good to me; I would have needed to lay the groundwork ages ago!

Potser el silenci per descobrir nous ritmes, potser la música per fer molt més intensos els ritmes del silenci. Els fulls dels llibres com un espai molt íntim que mai refusa. Del vent me'n quedo la inquietud que vibra a cada fulla. Pledejo encara, tossut i temerari, amb vells dimonis; un ritme greu compassa raonaments i dubtes. Amb les mancances m'he fet una cuirassa per sobreviure.

Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.

Perhaps all we want from reading is to return to that age when we could hold a book and cry, to that time between childhood and adolescence, the sweetest era of our lives.

hacia el final, inventó una lengua nueva y desconocida, la lengua de la infelicidad, esa en la que están escritos todos los libros verdaderos.

Misschien lezen we alleen maar om terug te keren naar de leeftijd toen we nog konden huilen met een boek in de armen, toentertijd, tussen kinderjaren en puberteit, in de bekoorlijke schijnwerper van ons leven.

Después de leer decenas de miles de libros, no puedes evitar preguntarte: ¿dónde ha estado mi vida durante todo este tiempo?

C?tre sfârÈ™itul nopÈ›ii sensul c?rÈ›ilor se evapora complet È™i r?mâneam în braÈ›e cu paginile lor poroase, cu semnele lor cabalistice imposibil de înÈ›eles, cu parfumul de hârtie pr?fuit?, cel mai excitant parfum de pe p?mânt.

La lengua de la infelicidad, esa en la que están escritos todos los libros verdaderos.

Copy your fathers, your ancestors, See, their words endure in books, Open, read them, copy their knowledge, He who is taught becomes skilled. Don't be evil, kindness is good..

See, their words endure in books, Open, read them, copy their knowledge, He who is taught becomes skilled. Don't be evil, kindness is good, Make your memorial last through love of you. Increase the [people], befriend the town,..

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read." —MARK TWAIN

My dad loved the shit out of her and hardly ever knew what to say to her and she loved the shit out right back out of him and filled the silent part of their lives with books and coffee and other things.

Libraries. How I love them. My source of stories. And solitude.

Libraries. How I love them. My source of stories. And solitude. Where the musty smell of books greets me like the perfume in our grandmother's embrace. My old branch was two blocks from our London flat, and I went almost daily. The librarian and I both got teary when I said goodbye. And this library is almost as close! I'll get a library card tomorrow and carry back my first installment of books. Maybe I can also find a quiet corner to write in peace.

Não faz sentido... A maneira como você fala não é humana... Nada disso é humano, apenas ciência e livros, coisas presas em garrafas e caixas. O que você sabe sobre amar alguém?

He was, after all, an avid reader, preferring the detached solace of a book above most human interaction. Yet

He couldn't believe that there were so many books in the world. Who could possibly read them all?

A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It's not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.

People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children's books. But they think children are happy. That's their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak . 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.]

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Books and marriage go ill together.

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I loved books. Loved reading. It not only gave me an escape from my own world, but opened a door into other worlds. It allowed me, at the beginning of my marriage, to suffer with some grace. As long as I had another world to go to, what did I care about how small and strange and terrifying my own life had gotten?