“First kiss ever I took
Like a page from a romance book.
The sky opened and the earth shook.”

“I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page”

“I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.”

“It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep… a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.”

“Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

“Some books I buy for their title, others for brevity. I love short books - the way you know from the first page that it's going to end.”

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ”

“Go back to Earth with a lip unsealed—go back with an open eye,
“And carry my word to the Sons of Men or ever ye come to die:
“That the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one—
“And the God that you took from a printed book be with you, Tomlinson!”

“I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages… and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.”

“The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at theduring the first eight pages.”