34 quotes found
“A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbi...”
“What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?”
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”
“She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.”
“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.”
“In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friendsbooksits because we really want to. When w...”
“I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I...”
“It needs to be repeated that books are much more than merely vehicles for text. Awareness of the way a book is created, the materials of which it is made, flipping through the volume to see how it ...”
“It is often much harder to get rid of books than it is to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see ag...”
“... Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think have left behind, accompany us throughout our li...”
“For all her faults, it was actually my mom who instilled in me a love of reading, and books, for which I will always be grateful. Shes a complete bibliophile, so Ive pretty much grown up around lib...”
“For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.”
“Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a s...”
“There was nothing as romantic as the feel of a book in your hands.”
“And because when all the words of promises and memories fade, these words that are written are the only one that remain. People may change and things may happen when we least expect it to but all t...”
“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and h...”
“As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.”
“A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages”
