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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. — Henry David Thoreau

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free. — Helen Keller

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. — Alberto Manguel

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing — Cynthia Kadohata

These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story. — Stefanos Livos

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation.. — Richard J. Foster

You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion — Olga Goa

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself.
'Not yet, not yet. — Holly Black

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books. — K. Lamb

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. — Glen Duncan

There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking. — R.S. Vern

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. — Muriel Barbery

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. — Sylvia Plath

Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown — Holly Black

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. — Irvine Welsh

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. — Gustave Flaubert

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words. — Jamie L. Harding

Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do."
"We all know what you'd do, though, don't we? — Holly Black

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me. — Dejan Stojanovic

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. — Anne Michaels

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book. — Thomas A Kempis

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers. — P.G. Wodehouse

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think. — Emily Dickinson

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. — Charles Frahman

A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story. — Rachel Lewis

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. — Gabrielle Zevin

In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death. — Holly Black

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. — Dejan Stojanovic

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books. — Elliot Ackerman

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books. — E.L. Doctorow

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. — Michael Ondaatje

With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua's hands. "One of my favorites. — C.J. Milbrandt

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. — Virginia Woolf

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did. — Holly Black

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. — Lois Lowry

A good book is an event in my life. — Stendhal

The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey. — Stephanie Lovett Stoffel

His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before. — Holly Black

No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right? — Jonathan Harnisch

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways. — Holly Black

Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact. — Marie Sabine Roger

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them? — Idries Shah

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky. — Dejan Stojanovic

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Marcel Proust

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle. — Kurt Vonnegut

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? — Holly Black

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

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. — Emily Dickinson

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. — Richard Flanagan

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. — Gaston Bachelard

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit. — John Raptor

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens

In the lie of truth lies the truth. — Dejan Stojanovic

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. — Anne Bronte

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. — Roger Ebert

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book. — Matt Haig

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald

Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write. — Elena Ferrante

That night, as the stars sparkled in the sky, Polly dreamed... — Brian Maunder

Every day, our kids are faced with obstacles in their way. As parents we need to teach them how to get up and Keep Going. — Mayra A. Diaz

Nobility is not only in forgiveness. — Dejan Stojanovic

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that. — Walter Moers

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books. — Jodie Foster

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. — Jasper Fforde

There are no winners in real games. — Dejan Stojanovic

I have never had the lust to meet famous authors; the best of them is in their books. — Michael Gold

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves. — George Eliot

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. — William H Gass