#quotes about books

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pages when you turn them with your sensitive fingertips. A large part of our brains is devoted to deciding whether what our hands are touching is good or bad for us. Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us.

Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"One doesn't need magic if one knows enough stories."

Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

[bookymcbookface]

“Days at the Morisaki Bookshop” by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa

[previouslyafangirl]

"The memories of spirits and gods may be hazy, but not the memories of books. Stories are eternal."

- Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

[peaceandnature]

[inlovewithquotes]

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

-The Catcher In The Rye

[rahma-djebbari]

"I am simply a book drunkard."

L. M. Montgomery

©:Me

[littlewriter19]

The Quote Of The Day.

[cheshirelibrary]

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ― W. Somerset Maugham

[abookblog]

One glance at [a book] and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you ... Books permit us to voyage through time.

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

[theinyshlobster]

“The world inside the books was alive with possibility.”

Camp Zero, Michelle Min Sterling

[unrighteousbooks]

There is no way to stop the passage of time, and there is no way to prevent a book eventually going the way of all flesh. If you lock it away, and no one ever spends any time appreciating it, it's still going to turn to dust like the rest of us. We do what we do at the bookshop to make sure it survives until it gets to its next owner. All anyone can do is take reasonable precautions. Keep the books away from fire. Don't throw them in a puddle. And remember to take delight in them.

Oliver Darkshire, The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all the story is about, they are probably wrong.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Introduction by Neil Gaiman)

[bookymcbookface]

“Books: the treasured life-blood of immortal spirits”

Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf

[vanona-camp]

“Not all broken things need to be fixed. Sometimes they just need to be loved. It would be a shame if only people who were whole were deserving of love.”

The Silent Waters by Brittainy C. Cherry

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"I am simply a book drunkard."

~ L. M. Montgomery