About Books Quotes

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.

We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars

It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.

Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future...

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.

Only five books tonight, Mommy, " she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes, ’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver, " she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.

CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?

Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!

The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a doorThat turns on magic hinges.

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.

Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

I think I’m always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.- Celine

Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.

How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.

He wanted to tell her she'd have more room if she'd just get rid of her books, but he supposed that in her case, it would be like telling a mother she'd have more room if she threw out her children.

If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter, " she'd told him, " and spend all night talking and never go to bed.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship."i think so.

A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies.

We note our place with bookmarkersThat measure what we've lost.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Paradise will be a kind of library

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.

There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.

The world belongs to those who read.

-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.