“HIPCRIME You committed one when you opened this book. Keep it up. It's our only hope.
::: — The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan”

“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”

“Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.”

“If you only ever read one book in your life… I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.”

“And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.”

“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

“If only the Earth would open and swallow you up.”

“But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.”

“If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend… keeping your f***ing mouth shut.”