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“I mean... There have been moments when I read something in a book that feels like it was written just for me. Like the author reached inside my brain, took all the thoughts I didn't know how to express, and put them into a perfect paragraph. And in those moments, I've felt so utterly connected to a person I didn't know that it made me think, 'Yes, the world can be hard, and people can be awful to each other. But there is also so much beauty in the fact that we can recognize each other like that.'" She diffled with her straw. "I want to be able to give that feeling to other people.”
― Laura Hankin, One-Star Romance

“Life isn't organized. Why should my library be any diffrent?”
― Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

“Not that anyone ever asked me, but all the company I ever needed was a book and the breeze at the edge of the ocean. I was happiest when I was alone”
― Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

“You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.”
― John Barton

“You can tell a lot about a person from the library books they borrow." June Jones”
― Freya Sampson, The Last Chance Library

“He couldn’t have burned the books; he couldn’t have so casually destroyed the pages on which he had first encountered Miss Havisham and Mr Verloc and Gabriel Conroy and Edward Ashburnham and Heathcliff; where first he’d glimpsed Netherfield Park and Barchester.”
― William Trevor, Love and Summer

“Every bookstore, everywhere, smelled the same.
It smelled like home.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Things We Do in the Dark

“This is a lonely place. You can do without religion but not without books and a dog.”
― Mecha Constantine

“I'd be happy to lend a few [books] out. All you need to do is sign an oath in blood swearing they'll return unharmed.”
― Sarah Goodman, Eventide Sneak Peek

“Mum says most memories are Post-its on the fridge door of your life. But a few, she says, are tattoos on your soul." -Lock the doors”
― Vincent Ralph

“He liked books that gave other people goose bumps. They gave him ideas.”
― Betsey Kulakowski, The King's Ransom

“Can a book you haven't read change you? Of course it can, if you meet someone who has read that book and changed! So don't forget, a person you meet could be the very book you haven't read!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What is a bookshelf other than a treasure chest for a curious mind?”
― The Picsees

“Vern stowed away the titles of books like morsels she might snack on later. She liked being reminded of the incomprehensibleness of the world. There was more to life than Cainland, more to earth than its collected sorrows. There was wonder and awe and the allure of nothingness. No one had figured everything out, but there were people who'd made their home in the searching. If they could dwell there, so could Vern.”
― Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

“There is, in fact, a whole planet of literary appreciation that is only distantly orbiting the actual texts. People declare themselves in favor of Jeffersonian democracy, or label a situation Kafkaesque, who haven’t read Jefferson or Kafka in years, or ever. Books are declared overrated, overlooked, major, minor, offensive and/or life-changing without being opened. Our shelves are full of mighty statements important to us that we haven’t quite gotten around to yet, and books from distant schooldays whose sole purpose is to show we’ve read them, and sometimes--often--we haven’t.”
― Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?

“Only landscapes that don't exist and books I'll never read aren't tedious. Life, for me, is a drowsiness that never reaches the brain. This I keep free, so that I can be sad there.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them–words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“A book is not a book unless you need to read it twice.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Book Bans Are Dumb
(Sonnet 1587)

Book bans are dumb,
It makes the mind numb.
If banning books were justice,
Middle ages would've been fun.

I’ve got Mein Kampf on my shelf,
next to bible, quran and vedanta.
You cannot fathom the wholeness of life,
if you let expansion be dictated by law.

Expansion can't be contained by law,
concocted in the gutter of tribalism.
Burning books doesn't prevent darkness,
It only obstructs illumination.

Book bans are dumb,
it makes the world numb.
Read reason, fiction, the lot -
Stretch your mind beyond medieval vision.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Consider the book and the magazine and the newspaper as technology. They have myriad access points. They are portable. They require no plug nor battery. They can be consumed while supine or in a sampan or at sea. They are recyclable. They can be consumed repeatedly and in some cases should be. They can be operated by infants or elders. They are not draped by safety strictures. They pass easily into hundreds of languages. They are blessedly silent in a world of wheedling. They are designed for your hands. Most of them are substantial in a world of illusion. They can last for thousands of years. They are envelopes for ideas. They are objects of grace and beauty. They are envelopes for epiphanies. They harbor hope. They have heft. They wait for you to find them. They grow battered and beloved. Even when ancient they are filled with verve and brio. They preserve voices. They are immortal. They are extraordinary. We take them for granted. Perhaps that is what we do with what we love.”
― Brian Doyle, Grace Notes Paperback â€� October 1, 2011

“Make eye contact with a tree.”
― Ron Padgett, How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide

“Read and reread great books.”
― Ron Padgett, How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide

“The best effect of any good book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“From the void, a spark ignites,
A celestial breath, a pulse of wonder,
We emerge—fragile, ephemeral�
Inhaling galaxies, exhaling dreams,
Life molds us like clay,
Alchemy of joy and sorrow,
Each tear a drop of cosmic ink,
Writing stories on our souls.”
― Alexis Karpouzos

“Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

Which is why music, movies, books are so important. With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.”
― Wayne Coyne

“All she wanted was to sit down and relax with a nice afternoon snack and a good book.”
― Ardin Patterson, Feral

“Non sapeva che io adoravo i libri. Che leggevo di nascosto i fumetti importati illegalmente. Che li spacciavo tra i miei amici. Che divoravo ogni storia mi capitasse tra le mani.”
― Pierdomenico Baccalario, Lo spacciatore di fumetti

“-E non c'è niente di peggio di non sapere perchè si ha paura... - continuò il Maestro. - Voglio dire: sono semplici fumetti. Storie illustrate per ragazzi. Che male possono fare?
-Non lo so.
- è come aver paura di un libro, di una sinfonia, di un quadro o di un monologo a teatro. Si può aver paura di queste cose?
- Credo di no, - risposi
- E invece sì, - replicò lui. - è proprio di queste cose che si deve avere paura, perché sono incontrollabili. Sono libere.”
― Pierdomenico Baccalario, Lo spacciatore di fumetti

“She was a solitary, studious girl, whose life had taken place in books; at least four years of it had passed in the eighteenth century.”
― Michelle de Kretser, Springtime: A Ghost Story

“Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog.”
― Shafak Elif, There Are Rivers in the Sky