About Books Quotes

Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.

Death comes as it pleases

On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.

Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.

The dog growled again, long and ferocious. The hair on my neck tingled.And just when I knew he would attack, a horrible scream split the air, and Darlene passed out and fell over on her side.

oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it..

It wasn't until I started writing that I found a whole new appreciation for reading.

I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.

I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination."D'Molay the Freeman Tracker

I sort of fell.""Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?

She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.

When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?

We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. Iwas motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.

Librarians were like guardian angels, with graying hair and beady eyes, magnified through reading glasses, and always read to recommend new literary windows to gaze through.

...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.

He pointed the scepter around the library and had an instant input of all of the books that were there into his brain, as if he had read them all at once.

Once upon a time in a basement library nook, I stumbled upon my first favorite book.Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled, I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, 'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here, " as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

If peace had a smell, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

I love a book that makes me cry.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.

How do you even start a book you know is going to be your last?

The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.

In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what’s going to happen. But knowing what happens isn’t the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.

I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain, ” she says. “Not books.

Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.

Whether a character is good or evil depends on your perspective.

ah, life—the thingthat happensto uswhile we’re offsomewhere elseblowing ondandelions& wishingourselves intothe pages ofour favoritefairy tales.

Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?

I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)

The Law of Moronic Ubiquity: Anything in the universe that is generally considered to be idiot-proof will eventually be ruined by an idiot.

The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.

Keep search in sci-fi and many other places books, stories and many other stuff... Keep searching, don't stop and you will find it!

Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

Looking at my reflection tonight, I see a new girl staring back at me. She has big hair and big eyes and a big heart. Not only is she the perfect size and pretty...she is smart. -Mackenzie