7,712 Quotes About Books

The world is small. Books make it bigger.

Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.

I asked my mother why we couldn’t have books and she said, ‘The trouble with a book is that you never know what’s in it until it’s too late.'I thought to myself, 'Too late for what?

Of snowy afternoons,waiting, watching and waiting.To see her small and larger than life.She is both fragile and determined,like a paper umbrella in the rain.

To imagine is to spark beauty in our thoughts.

I held your hand tightly in the rainUntil I realized you had let me go--I was holding on in vain,I was holding on in pain.

At my most precarious, I balanced on a book, and the books rafted me over the tides of feelings that left me soaked and shattered.

Real writing is about changing lives for eternity rather than entertaining a life for a moment.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.