26 Quotes About Book-love

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain. (p. 85)

There is a space on everyone's bookshelves for books you have outgrown but can't throw away. They hold your youth between their pages,like flowers pressed on a half-forgotten Summer's day.

But still she fled, leaving me battered and bleeding among the remnants of my brother's life, each of her parting footfalls another blow to the dream I'd not deserved, but had foolishly dared to hope for.

She gently placed her palm on my wounded shoulder and the warmth of her hand did nearly as much to soothe the ache as did the ointment. If only she would continue touching me, allow us to forge something new together from the broken pieces of our past. Her willing presence in my life would be far more healing than any balm

I wanted books like a vampire wants blood.

King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about.

I had read all the books so hard that when I gave them back the print was faint and gray with exhaustion

Un lettore non vede veramente i personaggi di una storia. Li sente.