A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.
As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Boo...
My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.
A life without books is like body without a soul.
Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds.
The library knows that it is a temporary fix. We have a stamp for the inside front cover: BROKEN SPINE NOTED. It is like a bracelet worn by a diabetic. When you return the book with this message stamp...
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.
I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?
The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.
Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.
Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.
Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.
We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.
If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer.
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.
One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline o...
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