“Apa gunanya banyak baca buku
Kalau mulut kau bungkam melulu”
Source: Aku Ingin Jadi Peluru
“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.”
Source: Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times: A Collection of All Original Essays from Today's (and Tomorrow's) Young Authors on the State of the Art -- ... Hustle -- in the Age of Information Overload
“من هرگز در حسرت بال پرندگان نخواهم بود. جذبه های جانم، از کتابی به کتاب دیگر و از صفحه ای به صفحه ی دیگر مرا به جاهای بسیار دورتر می برند.”
Source: Faust
“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”
“One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”
Source: And Then There Were None
“You have to learn to look at the whole of something, not just the parts.”
Source: Warcross
“Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people were alive, or even dogs or cats. (...) Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by torch light beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. (...) They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.”
Source: The Book of Lost Things
“A victorious mindset does not celebrate other people’s mishaps; it rises above a negative mindset and nurtures an environment of encouragement. It focuses on growth and development. A victorious mindset inspires resilience. It recognizes that everyone faces their own battles and that lifting others is real strength.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.”
Source: Society and solitude