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“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”

― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced

that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the

book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so

special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”

― Stephen Fry

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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a

story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.”

― Elizabeth Scott, Bloom

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“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”

― Neil Gaiman

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“What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked.

Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the

Horcruxes."

Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a

mobile library.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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“This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You

can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.”

― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: books, friends 570 people liked it Like

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would

realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”

― Voltaire


“As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded

versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread

words hung in the air.”

― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

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“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”

― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

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“I guess there are never enough books.”

― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

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“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to

do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of

some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

tags: books, conduct-of-life, contentment, country, happiness, life, music, nature, neighborliness, rest,

usefulness, work 524 people liked it Like

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgottenshelf, don't you agree?”

― Christopher Paolini


“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside

you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

― Gail Carson Levine, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

tags: books, re-reading, reading, words 517 people liked it Like

“How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.



The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.”

― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: books, first-impressions 503 people liked it Like

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

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“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”

― Malcolm X

tags: books, inspirational, literacy, religious 491 people liked it Like

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the

lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry

for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love

stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could

read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a

day as long as she lived.”

― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of

them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two

deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in

the cistern attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents' interest, booksreadable and unreadable, books suitable for a child and books most emphatically not. Nothing was

forbidden me. In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I

had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has

of finding a new blade of grass.”

― C.S. Lewis




“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

― Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets


“They're book addicts.”

― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted

with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps

someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently,

inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together

people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ―

proof that humans can work magic.”

― Carl Sagan

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“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they

ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought 442 people liked it Like

“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of

another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last

one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters

even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.”

― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale



tags: books, character, characters, ideas, impact, reading 436 people liked it Like

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”

― Isabel Allende


“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”

― George W. Bush

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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

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“No furniture is so charming as books.”

― Sydney Smith, A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith

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