7,712 Quotes About Books

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

A book is an interpretation," she says. "You want a place to be like it was in the book but it's not a place in a book it's just words. The place in your imagination is where you want to go and that place is imaginary. This is real.

Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.

How I long to feel the weight of a book in my hand. How I long to turn a page, and pass through the print as you'd pass through a door, into that world of wise and lofty spirits, of strange animals, of noble deeds and faraway cities. If only I could crawl into a book and stay there for the rest of my life.

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most about Marlowe, just so I can write you a poem worthy of Shakespeare. I've made books my lovers, hours my enemies and you the only story.