395 Quotes About Book-lovers

I imagined accumulating books as the truest form of wealth and dreamt of vast libraries with rolling ladders, shelves rising up to high ceilings, volumes filled with my notes and annotations. Selling half of my collection reduced me. I worried that I’d given too much away.

They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?''It was books, admitted Miss Minton.And Maia said, 'Good.

Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads.

I don't care about the rules or anyone else. People are awful - they're idiots - and if they try to hurt you, I won't need the revolver. I care about you and all I ask is that you try not to make me feel like an idiot for it. You're supposed to . . . you're my partner.

I'll do what I can, when I can," thought Eva, patting the little fox." Now, that isn't interfering, is it, my precious! laughed Eva, lounging back in the armchair as if she had just put the whole world, at least, her little world, Alaska to rights.

I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.

I mean, a book is but a stack of paper until someone reads it. And when someone reads it, they build a house within its pages, so whenever they return to that book, they feel right at home.

A friend asked, "Why do you read?""Because I am lonely without words..."He stared at me,"Even after people are around.

Simple text might entertain you but will never let you grow.