Books
Quotes - Books are the most wonderful friends in the world
“Thank
you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”
―
Moses Hadas
“Just
like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out
here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their
head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.”
―
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“If
you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Jo
Walton, Among Others
“What
an author doesn't know could fill a book.”
―
Holly Black, Lucinda's Secret
“I
think I’m always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I
get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.
-
Celine”
―
Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
“Books
are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them
up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they
never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the
more.”
―
Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living
“Sometimes
I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of
murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where
different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could
endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.”
―
Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
“Have
you thought of an ending?"
"Yes,
several, and all are dark and unpleasant."
"Oh,
that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they
all settled down and lived together happily ever after?"
"It
will do well, if it ever came to that."
"Ah!
And where will they live? That's what I often wonder.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“For
a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy
pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside.”
―
Elizabeth C. Bunce, StarCrossed
“To
sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate
converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”
―
Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
“He
liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too
many barbie dolls as a kid.”
―
Kelley Armstrong, Stolen
“The
library is like a candy store where everything is free.”
―
Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost
“An
entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew
that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate;
unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent
reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...”
―
Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
“The
buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching
toward infinity...”
― A.
Edward Newton
“Will
grinned. “Some of these books are dangerous,” he said. “It’s wise to be
careful.”“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside
them, for words have the power to change us.”“I’m not sure a book has ever
changed me,” said Will. “Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one
how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep—”“Only the very weak-minded
refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,” said Tessa”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“The
books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an
Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”
―
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“One
kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about
me?”
―
Alain de Botton
“But
her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll
be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her
first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.”
―
Marissa Meyer, Scarlet
