4,247 quotes found
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
“Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read- Books You Needn't Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Book...”
“They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing."Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White ...”
“I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.”
“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread themdigest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make...”
“Elend: I kind of lost track of timeBreeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.”
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
“They're book addicts.”
“Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maint...”
“If we read, we shall renew our mind.”
“I do not just want you at your best.I almost do not carewhere your Happiness lives,but please,let me visit your pain?Take me to the placewhere your sadness goes,and show me the tragedythat no one k...”
“It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.”
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
“What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book? You can leave the bookshop content, you, a man who thought that ...”
“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”
“If you are going to write a book,Make sure it is going to be worth reading .”
“You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.”
“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broke...”
