Quotes About Books

Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.

There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and rage. All there. I reached out and touched the cover of one called The Earth . I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

She loved to read and did so quite uncritically, taking each book as a prescription of sorts, an argument for a certain kind of life.

I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you?

I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.

It seems like everyone I know has very strong feelings about which boy is the best fit for Katniss, but also because the books themselves contain a commentary on the way audiences latch onto romance, even (and maybe especially) when lives are at stake.

Feeling like she really was just seven or eight, Claire sat down on the floor, books all around her, and she opened the last one she'd picked up. Even though it was dark, and even though her eyes couldn't see the words, she knew them. Knew the little prince's story as well as her own. She closed her eyes. She leaned her head forward against the book. And she sobbed.

On my bed, I sit down and flip through the cut-up books one by one, reading all the cut-up passages.

Instead, I pull out my wallet and hand Mrs. Carnes a twenty, which is the smallest I have, and she counts off the books.

Roy might know who James Joyce is, I'm not sure, but it wouldn't matter. You mention books to Roy and he thinks you're trying to act superior.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Permítame que me tome la libertad de preguntarle cómo se las arregla para vivir sin libros.

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any.

he is continually among his books, since he has no other society.

In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning. His childhood's sense of superiority

No books!' I exclaimed. 'How do you contrive to live here without them? if I may take the liberty to inquire. Though provided with a large library, I'm frequently very dull at the Grange; take my books away, and I should be desperate!

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

Unto my Books-so good to turn- Far ends of tired Days- It half endears the Abstinence- And Pain-is missed-in Praise- As Flavors-cheer Retarded Guests With Banquettings to be- So Spices-stimulate the time Till my small Library- It may be Wilderness-without- Far feet of failing Men- But Holiday-excludes the night- And it is Bells-within- I thank these Kinsmen of the Shelf- Their Countenances Kid Enamor-in Prospective- And satisfy-obtained-

I am glad you have an hour for books, those enthralling friends, the immortalities...

When I lost the use of my Eyes it was a comfort to think there were so few real books that I could easily find some one to read me all of them.

Es un raro placer que nos ahorma hallar un viejo libro con la ropa que usaba en aquel tiempo, creo que un privilegio. Cogerle de la mano venerable, calentarla en la nuestra y dar un paso o dos hacia el pasado, al tiempo en que era joven.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them