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“The room is warm and smells like dust, and just the presence of so many books makes it easier to breathe. It’s remarkable how being around books, even those you’ve never read, can have a calming effect, like walking into a crowded party and finding it full of people you know.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“Aku tidak memilih waktu tertentu untuk membaca. Setiap aku punya waktu luang, aku membaca. Kapan saja, di mana saja. Pulang ke rumah, sebelum tidur, aku membaca. Bangun pagi, aku membaca dulu. Pokoknya, ketika tidak melakukan apa-apa, aku membaca buku. Atau, ketika aku sedang tidak ingin bermalas-malasan, aku membaca. Aku kadang-kadang memang hanya ingin bermalas-malasan. Di luar itu, setiap punya kesempatan, aku membaca. Lima atau enam halaman.

Justru aku biasanya tidak membaca buku ketika sedang dengan sengaja ingin jalan-jalan. Aku ingin jalan-jalan saja. Karena, aku merasa buku justru jadi gangguan. Membaca membuatku tidak bisa melihat apa-apa yang lain.”
― Eka Kurniawan

“The books she read took her to places she would never visit, gave her friends she would never have, offered her a life she would never live. They were her escape from the world - they provided therapy for her mind, for her heart. They were hermits trusted companions.Because unlike people, books didn't care if you were a princess or a pauper. Their content didn't change depending on whose eyes travelled over their pages. Books just were.”
― Lynette Noni, We Three Heroes

“«A book can't take the place of a man!»
«I disagree. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if bores you, you can move on. Which is pretty much what happens in real life.»”
― Sarah Morgan, Sunset in Central Park

“I love books. I need them, those self-contained little worlds between two covers where I can travel whenever I have the feeling I’m living in the wrong world - or when my own world is hemming me in or eluding me or hurting me.”
― Melanie Raabe, Die Wahrheit

“Her only life ambition was to read every good book that had ever been published.”
― Ken Kalfus, Pu-239 And Other Russian Fantasies

“Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own.”
― Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist

“Besides, he loved his shop better than his house, and here on Sundays he could browse among his own books undisturbed, eat his lunch, doze, and answer at length some of the correspondence, erudite and whimsical, he received from people he had never seen but whom he felt he knew well. Booklovers: if you knew what kind of books a man wanted, you knew the man.”
― Patricia Highsmith , The Blunderer

“The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.”
― Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist

“On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across every inch of exposed wall. They rise up to the ceiling, warriors of an impenetrable army, encircling my over-sized armchair and keeping me safe as they whisper their stories softly in my ear.”
― Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist

“La macchina tecnologicamente più efficiente che l'uomo abbia mai inventato è il libro.”
― Northrop Frye

“Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds.”
― Munia Khan

“Accidentally moving someone’s bookmark is like realizing you gave bad directions and not telling them.”
― Nanette L. Avery

“Ti do un consiglio: quando sei giovane e ti capita di leggere qualcosa che non ti piace affatto, mettilo da parte e rileggilo tra tre anni dopo. Se ancora non ti piace, rileggilo dopo altri tre anni. E quando sei giovane - quando arrivi ai cinquant'anni come me - rileggerai il libro che ti è piaciuto in assoluto di meno.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“I libri sono per me una casa. I libri non fanno una casa, sono una casa, nel senso che, così come apri una porta, apri un libro e ci entri.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Le chiesi perchè non voleva libri in casa e lei rispose: "Il guaio di un libro è che scopri cosa contiene solo quando è troppo tardi."
Io pensai: "Troppo tardi per cosa?"
Cominciai a leggere di nascosto [...] ogni volta che aprivo le pagine di un libro mi chiedevo se questa volta sarebbe stato troppo tardi: avrei dovuto un sorso fatale che mi avrebbe trasformato per sempre.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Indeed, to perish from illness while surrounded by books seems fitting, for I am more ink and paper than skin and bones.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“This was the Southeran's hush, that strange, oppressive atmosphere generated around scholarly people who want mothing more than to be left alone with books but are doomed to interact with members of the public.”
― Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

“Leave me alone,
Do me a favor, abandon me,
I want to think about,
You me and the idea of forever.”
― Rohit Hora

“​Capisci di aver letto un buon libro quando giri l'ultima pagina e ti senti come se avessi perso un amico.”
― Paul Sweeney

“No sabía que la música era capaz de abrir puertas dentro de uno mismo, de transportarte a un lugar que ni el compositor habría previsto.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“A veces, los adultos son impostores, pensé. Siempre actúan como si desearan ayudarnos o cuidarnos, pero en el fondo solo quieran algo a cambio.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“«A book can't take the place of a man!»
«I disagree. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can ever take it out to dinner. And if bores you, you can move on. Which is pretty much what happens in real life.»”
― Sarah Morgan, Sunset in Central Park

“L'essere notata non mi va a genio, questo mi pare chiaro.”
― Sara Dardikh, Baci nell'ombra

“Who can know when his world is going to change? . . . Who would suspect that in the morning a different child would wake? . . . Perhaps I should have at least known something, but maybe not; who can sense revelation in the wind?

What happened was just this: I got hooked on the story.

For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“A great book can change your life forever.”
― wordsworldbygarima

“El ocio es un estado natural y bendito".”
― Ursual K. LeGuin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

“los poemas, no deben significar, sino ser".”
― Margaret Atwood

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a book.”
― Jennifer J. Chow, Death by Bubble Tea

“He told me that the world is full of readers, some just haven’t found the right book yet.”
― Madeline Martin