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  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. Fa...

  Books Quotes – Books are people who do not leave   “If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.” ― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue   “So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!” ― Brian Jacques, Lord Brocktree   “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ― Joseph Brodsky   “The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.   “Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun   “But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in boo...

  Books Quotes - In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own   “Being a writer is a good, good thing.” ― Shannon Hale   “I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.” ― Robert Graves, I, Claudius   “I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?   “Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people were alive, or even dogs or cats. (...) Stories were different, though: they came alive i...

  Books Quotes - Beware you be not swallowed up in books!   “I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars   “She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent   “You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger   “This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read.” ― Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book   “Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An...

  Girls Quotes - A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy   “How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.” ― Emma Cline   “It's only that the answers in most stories are boring because they are supplied by the real world rather than, well, something better. Something more stimulating. Sit down with the Greeks and the Romans, and the boring answers get more interesting. Seasons because a girl and a crocus. Death because a girl and an apple. The moon because a girl keeps driving her daft chariot into the sea. It's all down to girls, one way or another.” ― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance   “Speaking of my things, you weren't actually using that darling little study were you?" she asked sweetly. Her mate's eyes narrowed. "Why?" "Because I am commandeering it for my closet." "Closet? My study...