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  Books Quotes - A well-composed book is a magic carpet   “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451   “A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.” ― Caroline Gordon   “He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.   She was the book thief without the words.   Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief   “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.” ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man   “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and li...

  Books Quotes - A house without books is like a room without windows   “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...” ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose   “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” ― Francois Mauriac   “A house without books is like a room without windows.” ― Horace Mann   “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.” ― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader   “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” ― Astrid Lindgren   “Have you really read all those books in your room?”   Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’...

  Books Quotes - I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books   “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars   “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” ― Alan Bennett, The History Boys   “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, d...

  Books Quotes - Books are the plane, and the train, and the road   “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ― Mortimer J. Adler   “Books are the mirrors of the soul.” ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts   “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.” ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods   “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life   “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!” ― John Waters   “We live for books.” ― Umberto Eco   “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” ― Jane Austen   “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”...

  Fathers Quotes - The best gift for a future mother is a present father   “...often he did not have the energy to think, but when he did, he thought of what made a death a good death, and his sense was that a good death would be one that did not scare his boy, that a father's duty was not to avoid dying in front of his son, this a father could not control, but rather that if a father did have to die in front of his son, he ought to die as well as he was able, to do it in a way that left his son with something, that left his son with the strength to live, and the strength to know that one day he could die well himself, as his father had....” ― Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man   “Perplexed and unhappy she would seek out her father on all social occasions and would sit down beside him. Like a very small child this large muscular creature would sit down beside him because she felt lonely, and because youth most rightly resents isolation, and because she had not yet l...