178 Quotes About Bookworm

[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.

They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being the novelty, the random American, he would recognize who she really was -- a nerdy bookworm, a happy loner -- and move on.

Bookworms love to say, there is no friend as loyal as a book. I say, if your knowledge of all those books doesn’t come to any use of the people around you, then there’s no creature as selfish as you.

Books are the flung-open windows to a parallel universe.

Her eyes ran across the rows and rows of books. I knew her well enough to see that the sight of so many books in one place was something of a dream to her.

I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word.

Some books send you around the world, while others send you around the bend.

She could never read too much. It was like telling a starving man he's eating too much.

A book should grab you by the lapels and kiss you into tomorrow.