Books
Quotes - I wanted to live among books
“I
thought... that we could at least talk about books.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“Books,
for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home--they are one, in the sense that
just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is
a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“No hot
guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle.
Not
to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be
forced into footie pajamas.”
―
Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“There
is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can
read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does
something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great
undertakings in the pages of a book.”
―
Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will
Heal Our Hearts and Homes
“I've
read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've
read more. Believe me.”
―
Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
“I
wanted to live among books.”
―
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading
“Books
are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most
unpromising soil.”
―
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“I
spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put
the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.”
―
Amy Plum, Die for Me
“A
written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate
with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art
nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only
be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on
canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Books
are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees
them.”
―
Samuel Butler, The Note Books Of Samuel Butler
“…only
then did I wake out of the book.”
―
John McGahern
“She
should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels.
Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they
implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything
just went on and on and on.”
―
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories
“[Public]
libraries should be open to all—except the censor.
[Response
to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
―
John F. Kennedy
“And
books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between
the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”
―
Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm
“When
you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You
see more in you than there was before.”
―
Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play
“I
love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books,
old wines.”
―
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
“Children
deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave
delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and
magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.”
―
Peter S. Jennison
“Never
trust a man who reads only one book.”
―
Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood
“One
day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I
would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat
peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white
chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach
pits until they went home.”
―
Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
“I
leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting
than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”
―
Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy
“They
had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than
books?”
―
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Literature
is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me
out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me
without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
―
Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
“A
house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring
up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy
them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by
being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and
grows upon it.”
―
Henry Ward Beecher, Eyes and ears
