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  Books Quotes - A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands   “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.” ― Annie Dillard, The Living   “Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems   “To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” ― Claude Adrien Helvetius   “A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.” ― Umberto E...

  Books Quotes - When was the last time you read a book?   “I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.” ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon   “Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.” ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale   “When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride   “Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters on his slate and attempting to read for the first ti...

  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...