Quotes about booking

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“So what do you do? Really? (Kat)
Nothing. Really. It’s boring as hell. Artemis won’t allow me to bring anything here with me. No guitar. No Cartoon Network. Occasionally, I sneak a book in just to watch her wig out when she finds it. (Acheron)”

“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.”

“I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.”

“a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.”

“Computers don't kill books; people do.”

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

“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”

“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”

“A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.”

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”

“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?”

“On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.”

“It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.”

“Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.”

“a good book
can make an almost
impossible
existence,
liveable

( from 'the luck of the word' )”

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”

“I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”

“In a weak moment, I have written a book.”

“She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.”

“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die.”

“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them. What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?”

“Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.”

“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.”

“I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

“I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.”

“I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.”

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

“And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.”

“And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.”

“Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.”

“I dreamt a limitless book,
A book unbound,
Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance
On every line there was a new horizon drawn,
New heavens supposed;
New states, new souls.”

“But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.”

“I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”

“Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.”

“I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.”

“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”

“She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.”

“I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.”

“Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.”

“It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place”

“God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.”

“To get along with God,
Consider the consequences of your behavior.
Earthseed: The Books of the Living”

“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”

“When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being… They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.”

“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”

“I'm of the glamorous ladies
At whose beckoning history shook.
But you are a man, and see only my pan,
So I stay at home with a book.”

“This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will.”

“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”

“You may not agree, you may not care, but
if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.”

“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.”

“I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.”

“i really like reading books”

“People should be interested in books, not their authors.”

“We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.”

“Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.”

“I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either."
"Put your books away and I'll show you.”

“Life is not meant to be an open-book test.”

“I imagine the earth when I am no more:
Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley.
Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born,
Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.”

“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.”

“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”

“We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.”

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. is soon forgotten, butlasts forever.”

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”

“For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.”

“I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.”

“Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.”

“I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.”

“It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.”

“if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.”

“Do you fall in love often?"

Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”

“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.”

“All books are merely delayed dust.”

“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.”

“A good book should leave you…. slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”

“Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.”

“Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.”

“His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.”

“I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.”

“Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.”

“I don't even hate books anymore.”

“There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.”

“To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.”

“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”

“Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.”

“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.”

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”

“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.”

“When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening…. I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.”

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”

“I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.”

“How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!”

“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”

“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?”

“The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.”