“ You taught me to think, and you put ideas in my head. People read to forget. Books don't change the world, ji. You didn't tell me that. You talked of the dignity of the human spirit to a hijra. Faiqa Mansab
“ It is often much harder to get rid of books than it is to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again… Carlos María Domínguez
“ Michelle, since the first day I met you I knew you were the one for me. I knew that I would make you my wife. I love waking up to your beautiful face every morning and seeing you before I close my eye… Blaque Diamond
“ Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through the window into another person’s home, but it is my face that I see in the… Derek Thompson
“ The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you all the time and keeps reminding you about how to act and react towards thing… Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“ When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the time. I went from escaping into books to extracting things from them, from being inspired b… Pamela Paul
“ Built-in shelves line my bedroom, adjacent to my Japanese platform bed, purchased for its capacious rim, the better to hold those books that must be immediately accessible. Yet still they pile on my n… Pamela Paul
“ When I look through Bob, the actual stories between his mottled covers may have been written by others, but they belong to me now. Nobody else on the planet has read this particular series of books in… Pamela Paul
“ Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final chapters approach, you can pile up the possibilities like a stack of… Pamela Paul
“ You should read this book’ almost never simply means you should read this book. It is usually far more fraught. Telling someone what to read, even asking politely, can feel more like an entreaty or an… Pamela Paul
“ Yeah, I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that. Victoria Schwab
“ I am a wall. I am a wall. I am a wall. I am a giant and I tower above you. I am a giant and I can't hear your voice. There is familiarity in this. I spent years like this growing up, my mother hoverin… Tania De Rozario
“ This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt. Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
“ It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best. Katarina Bivald
“ You want weapons? We´re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! This room´s the greatest arsenal we could have. Doctor who
“ A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well. G.K. Chesterton
“ The replacement of independent bookstores by firms such as Barnes & Noble, Waterstones or Borders superficially provided a wide range of reading, but their policies further limited choice. Sara Ayad
