“ The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name ('Niko, Niko'), the name of his original owner and now 'Stavros'. Occasionally he would also say 'Panagia mou', which could be an expression of piety bu… Victoria Hislop
“ Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world. Tom Spanbauer
“ Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us… Hazel Rochman
“ I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s k… Ander Monson
“ Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky. Rachel Lewis
“ It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too. Elizabeth Wein
“ I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime. Angélica Calheiros
“ Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own. James W. Sire
“ Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I k… Kelseyleigh Reber
“ No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could… Xinran
“ Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books. Johnny Rich
“ Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book. John M. Keller
“ In literature, the reader standing at the threshold of the end of a book harbors no illusion that the end has not come—he or she can see where it finishes, the abyss the other side of the last chunk o… John M. Keller
“ I'll make a book on learning how to be a complete moron someday, and I'm sure no one will buy it, because everyone will have mastered that already by the time I gather enough moronism to process it in… Will Advise
