“ That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you. Jessica Zafra
“ CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in? Jen Campbell
“ ...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall. Jane Austen
“ All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure. Lemony Snicket
“ I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks we… Maggie Stiefvater
“ Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped… Rebecca Mead
“ Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles. Alan Bradley
“ Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you Haruki Murakami
“ I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s repulsive, because one’s life… Morrissey
“ Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish. Keith Donohue
“ Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it! Ian Falconer
“ As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. George MacDonald
“ The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others. Thomas Bernhard
“ The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves. Cesare Pavese
“ [W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can… John Waters
“ I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soo… Arthur Conan Doyle
“ In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libra… Martha Cooley
“ He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say. Alice Hoffman
“ What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the… Jennifer Donnelly
