7,712 Quotes About Books

I read my books with diligence, and mounting skill, and gathering certainty. I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life.

If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.

Accidentally moving someone’s bookmark is like realizing you gave bad directions and not telling them.

Even when your heart washurting, there was something so hopeful about reading a book filled withlove. The pages were somewhat of a reminder that maybe one day I would beokay again. Maybe one day I would be all right.

What a man reads pours massive ingredients into his mental factory and the fabric of his life is built from those ingredients.

I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and then foxes. I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the woods, by day or darkness.

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavourless.- Chinese Proverb

She was still clutching the book.She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.

It'll be dark soon, Rudy.'He walked on. 'So what?''I'm going back.'Rudy stopped and watched her now as if she were betraying him. 'That's right, book thief. Leave me now. I bet if there was a lousy book at the end of this road, you'd keep walking. Wouldn't you?