“ It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understand… Dwight L. Moody
“ The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur. Graham Swift
“ When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. Virginia Woolf
“ We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit… Vladimir Nabokov
“ There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. Alberto Manguel
“ The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you see my eyes? Markus Zusak
“ The fly lands on the swatter.The movie runs backwardsand catches fire in the projector.This species apes us wellby talking only about itself Billy Collins
“ She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently wor… Elizabeth von Arnim
“ Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this ra… Virginia Woolf
“ It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream. Kim Stanley Robinson
“ I suppose that words, timely and arranged in the right order, produce an afterglow. When you read words like that in a book, beautiful words, a powerful but fleeting emotion ensues. And you also know… Valeria Luiselli
“ I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. Jean-Paul Sartre
“ Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters on his slate a… Hermann Hesse
“ The opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with words i… Hermann Hesse
“ Pacjent - powiedziała mi pewnego dnia Anna, już blisko końca - to dziwne słowo. Cierpliwy. A ja wcale nie jestem cierpliwa. John Banville
“ These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let… Athanasius
“ The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engage… Alice Sebold
