“Each opening bud, and care-perfected seed, Is as a page, where we may read of God.” MayCarePagesPlantSeedsOpeningBud Author:Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
“We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.” PossibilityPagesEndlessOpeningChaptersVersesEndless Possibilities Author:Rudyard Kipling
“Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth.” IfsLongBookHandsEarthLife IsChoicesGrowsWaitingPathBrokenPagesLuckMoodOpeningCuriousHorizonCowsShelvesGreedySweetestExaltedPasturesWeighingBrowsingBallast Author:Linda Pastan
“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journy of exploration and discovery.” FirstsLooksBookLinesCitiesReaderPagesDiscoveryTablesBoundsTreasureOpeningGatesPrintExplorationChestsShelvesJacketsNeatStaticOrderlyTreasure Chests Author:David Almond
“Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.” HumansBookSpacePagesLettersOpeningVolumeDesksChamberSkullsUnfoldingHummingQuintessenceBeehives Author:Hilary Mantel