Books
Quotes - Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our
own
“The
book's always better than the movie.”
―
Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
“Dismissed
like a dog. Damon groped for his jacket behind him, found it, and wished that
his groping for his sense of humor could be as successful. The faces around him
were all the same. They could have been carved in stone.
But
not stone as hard as that that was coming together again around his soul. That
rock was remarkably quick to mend—and an extra layer was added, like the
layering of a pearl, but not covering anything nearly so pretty.”
―
L.J. Smith (The Vampire Diaries: The Return Volume 1: Nightfall)
“Whatever
others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
“It
would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love
affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like
that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths?
Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to
share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god
forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly
backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or
book or film to change your life.”
―
David Nicholls, One Day
“A
book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind
and hand.”
―
Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book
“Books
don't need batteries.”
―
Nadine Gordimer
“No
one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”
―
Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton
“Overall,
the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all
singing soundlessly within their covers.”
―
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
“These
are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them
it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other
ways they can never really be.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Books
let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."
[The
Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]”
―
William Hazlitt, Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited, with
Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr
“I
think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you
forever.”
―
J.K. Rowling
“Like
most of my stories, it will end tragically.”
―
Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me
“An
honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section:
'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and
science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”
―
Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
“Books
wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our
windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they
became chapters in it themselves.”
―
Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“Before
you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.”
―
Desiderius Erasmus
“All
books are either dreams or swords,
You
can cut, or you can drug, with words. ”
―
Amy Lowell, Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
“The
words you can't find, you borrow.”
―
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“The
prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading
himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also
reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of
each other's presence.”
―
Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
“A
book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.”
―
thomas kempis
“Good
books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”
―
Scott Westerfeld
“Books
crowbar the world open for you.”
―
Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers
“Cam
starts laughing, "Oh, I love it when she reads." He turns to Lucy
who's face is starting to contort and turn to a bright shade of red, "She
reads these smutty books, like full on dirty shit, full of sex and like... bdsm
shit."
"I'm
not joking boys, they're like full on pornographic. Talking about silky shafts
and veiny dicks and shit," Logan is now on the ground holding his side
from the pain of laughing too hard.
"Sometimes
she'll be reading, then all of sudden she'll put her book down and look at me
like she wants to eat me, literally eat me!" he yells, laughing harder,
still swatting away her hands that are trying to shut him up, "I mean I
don't mind it, not at all. It's hot as fuck. And she wants to try everything
she reads in these books. Like... everything. She learns everything from these
books... so I don't give a shit when, of how much she reads, I get rewards.”
―
Jay McLean, More Than This
