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“Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army--the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to shoot my head clean off without me noticing.”

Book:Haunting Violet

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“His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. "What have we here?" he asks. "Required reading," I say. "It's a shame they do that," he says, thumbing through the pages. "Requirement ruins even the best of books.”

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Book:The Archived

Source: The Archived

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

Book Reading Explore

Book:Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.”

Stories Reading

Author:Mary Norton

“But I love you, and before you say it words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn't listen to songs, we wouldn't beg to be read to when we're kids. If they were just words, then they'd have no meaning and stories wouldn't have been around since before humans could write. We wouldn't have learned to write. If they were just words then people wouldn't fall in love because of them, feel bad because of them, ache because of them, stop aching because of them, have sex, quite a lot of the time, because of them.”

Reading Words

Book:Words in Deep Blue

Source: Words in Deep Blue

“I always trust God's choices for me, even if they seem painful at the time — for certainty comes at the right moment. As for people, there is no safety in their hearts, nor trust in their fickleness.”

Life Inspirational God Wisdom Truth Pain Faith Quotes Spirituality Emotions

Author:Khaled Ibrahim

“The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.”

Reading

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.”

Reading

Book:Autumn

Source: Autumn

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

Reading Schopenhauer Art Of Literature

Book:The Art of Literature

Source: The Art of Literature

“candid, adj. "Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading." This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date. I guess I was just giving you a warning. "Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".”

Reading Sex

Book:The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

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