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  Inspirational Quotes - You will never be able to escape from your heart   “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.   Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions--predigested books and ideas...marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talent...

  Books Quotes - I hoard books. They 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   “I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.” ― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader   “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 valu...

  Books Quotes - To build up a library is to create a life “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 in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by torch light beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. (...) They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them...

  Books Quotes - What is reading but silent conversation   “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   “She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rai...

  Books Quotes - It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words   “To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris   “The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them to fetter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can possess. After all, what laws can be laid down about books? The battle of Waterloo was certainly fought on a certain day; but is Hamlet a better play than Lear? Nobody can say. Each must decide that question for himself. To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our li...

  Books Quotes - I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please   “Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas   “..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.” ― Noam Chomsky, Occupy   “What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be...