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Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. — Christopher Paolini

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance. — Cynthia Ozick

That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.
#ShadowofSadd #Books — Steen Langstrup

Books are not my whole life, but they make my life whole. — Anonymous

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. — Mary Ann Shaffer

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. — Roald Dahl

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. — Young-Ha Kim

There comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real. — James Salter

The Book Charm

Your Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared — Viola Shipman

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. — Jesse Lee Bennett

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different. — Carla H. Krueger

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened — L.J. DeVet

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. — W.e. Channing

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. — Alan W. Watts

What people need to remember is they are eternal beings and that they never die."~Kuan Yin — Hope Bradford

Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life. — Arlaina Tibensky

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. — Lawrence Clark Powell

I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books. — Alyse M. Gardner

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. — William Hazlitt

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read. — Shannon L. Alder

Look. All books are weird when you think about it ... It goes without saying that real life is also weird. — Kelly Link

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great. — Thomas Carlyle

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. — Anita Brookner

Books are my friends, my companion. They make me laugh and cry and find the meaning of life — Christopher Paolini

You are never so lost that your angels cannot find you. — Jeff Rees Jones

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Books are not life, however much we may wish they were — Julian Barnes

Water is essential for life, books are essential for knowledge. — Redmond Herring

what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death. — May Sarton

Books are like horcruxes
without all the evil
because a piece of the author goes into each one. — Ella J. Fraser

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives. — Dale Carnnegie

Books are not life, only its ashes. — Marguerite Yourcenar

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan

The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able. — R.S. Guthrie

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. — John Crowley

All books are butterflies, having lived the life of a caterpillar. — Suzanne Brandyn

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold. — Esther Forbes

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. — Deb Caletti

Books are my greatest treasures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Dreams are glimpses into life's truths. — Larry Itejere

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader's skull and heart. — Siri Hustvedt

No matter what luxuries you have or don't have, life is always beautiful when you are around your loved ones! — Swapna Rajput

Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book. — A.M. Hudson

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious — Anatole France

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!! — Anita R. Sneed-Carter

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books. — Norman Maclean

Books are our best possessions in life, they are our immortality. — Alberto Manguel

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved. — Veronica Roth

Me? Books and cleverness? There are more important things in life. Friendship, and bravery, and Harry, just be careful. — Hermoine Granger

Suddenly, books are arriving every day! "So many books, so little time. — Frank Zappa

But your problems are not going to continue for the rest of your life — Haruki Murakami

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. — R.L. Stine

Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous — Bette A. Stevens

The answer to all of life's problems are out there somewhere its just a question of finding the right book — Tammy Blackwell

There are books ... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy. — Jaggi Vasudev

All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out. — Jean Chapman

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point. — Mason Cooley

Once he heard that books are always better than movies, but he now knew that movies are better than the real life. — Davor Banovic

Great books live longer than people.
They are gonna bury us all. — Patricia Nedelea

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life. — Sandra Cisneros

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world. — Tom Spanbauer

Books are like a gateway to real life. — Jessica Sorensen

A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee.
These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days. — R.M. Engelhardt

Remember: you are not what you own. Storing all those books doesn't make you any smarter; it just makes your life more cluttered. — Francine Jay

Books without the knowledge of life are useless. — Samuel Johnson

Old books are like Old friends — George R R Martin

My 11 #books come without pomp n frills, for all seeking #true #meaning & unafraid of overcoming past conditioning. #Rewards are infinite — Michael Levy

In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists. — Aaron Starmer

Books are expensive. So are nice houses with gardens. Has it occurred to you that someone has to pay for your peaceful life? — Lisa Kleypas

There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU. — Pandora Gray

Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor. — Cheryl Koevoet

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate. — Cassandra Clare

These books are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don't change. — David Levithan

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads. — Carla H. Krueger

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. — Margaret Fuller

We live in an odd world, where books are filled with expressions of love, and lives devoid of it. — Meeta Ahluwalia

Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for. — Mira Lyn Kelly

The ones who love your dark are the only light you'll ever need. — Jenim Dibie

Unlikable characters in books are interesting. Unlikable characters in life are hell. — John King

I suppose books are my real passion in life. — John Boyne

For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has always been so. — Jeanette Winterson

I read a lot ... I love books. I work with books. Books are my life. — Kate Morton

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books. — Will Self

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken. — Susan Vaught

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself. — Mason Cooley

The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way. — Philip Roth

In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far I haven't met them in real life! — Deyth Banger

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. — Carla H. Krueger

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions. — James Salter

Books are the ammunition of life. — Theodore Roosevelt

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. — Emma Thompson

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. — Ming-Dao Deng