It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal
The world was hers for the reading.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of oneβs own self.
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something β a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things β which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
