“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.”
“A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader”
Source: I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
Source: The Reading List
“I forgave you, but that doesn’t mean I trust you again.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“when I die, do not waste a minute mouring me. I may go, but I will leave behind all my thousand & one lives — a bookmad girl never dies.”
Source: The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read.”
Source: Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
“Your biggest flaw is pretending that you don’t have any flaws.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.”
Source: Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
“Barack intrigued me. He was not like anyone I’d dated before, mainly because he seemed so secure. He was openly affectionate. He told me I was beautiful. He made me feel good. To me, he was sort of like a unicorn—unusual to the point of seeming almost unreal. He never talked about material things, like buying a house or a car or even new shoes. His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind. He read late into the night, often long after I’d fallen asleep, plowing through history and biographies and Toni Morrison, too. He read several newspapers daily, cover to cover. He kept tabs on the latest book reviews, the American League standings, and what the South Side aldermen were up to. He could speak with equal passion about the Polish elections and which movies Roger Ebert had panned and why.”
Source: Becoming