Quotes Tagged "books"

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

I am a part of all I have read.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.