“Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.” WorldFeelsBookSelfSeemsCareCertainReadingLove IsPromiseBurdenOptimisticWarmthRomantic LoveReally GreatDelightfulCommonplaceLightersGreat BookCompletenessBook Love Book:The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life
“If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.” IfsReadingPromiseLibraryPessimismGloomy Author:Mason Cooley
“In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.” LyingReadingReaderPromiseNovelistsCompact Book:A Cynthia Ozick reader Source: A Cynthia Ozick reader
“From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.” YearsTwoSeemsKidsTurnsReadingParentSoundMillionsGoneWonderfulMinutesLove YouPerspectivePromiseQuietPagesSacredInstinctMilesEveningFoldsI PromiseMiles Away Author:George Saunders
“It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people.” PeopleFeelingsReadingPromiseNewsAnd LoveNew DayGreat Feelings Author:Bob Saget
“All I can promise the supporters of Reading is that I come in here and give 100%, I try to get the team successful on the pitch, and we try to do that as quickly as possible. The Championship is a league that can very quickly change and we hope to change for the better.” GivingTryingI CanReadingSuccessfulTeamPromiseLeagueChampionshipSupporterChange For The Better Author:Steve Clarke
“I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place that when I was young, I was raised on "I Love Lucy" and listening to the Grateful Dead and reading Jack Kerouac. They, to me, were all symbols of this very foreign sense of promise and movement. After all this time here I'm glad I still have it.” StillsYoungReadingMovementListeningPromiseGratefulRaisedGladSymbolsCaliforniaGlamourRomanticismLucyForeign Places Author:Pico Iyer
“It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.” BelieveKindBookFeelingsSongReadingRealizingCommonListeningPromiseReading BooksDepressingPop Song Author:Will Sheff
“I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley” MindFirstsMaySeemsSpiritReadingDivineDutyPromiseGratefulAffairScriptureEnlightenedWord Of GodEmphasisEnjoyableI PromiseLove AffairTediousWondrousI Am GratefulThoughts And WordsReading The ScripturesGordon B Hinckley Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.” IfsNeedsLittlesBookEnoughReadingImaginationPromiseNew Books Author:Italo Calvino