Bookworm Quotes
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“You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.”
― Nevernight
― Nevernight

“There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with him or told him to sit still. When his tutors had thrown up their hands in frustration, it was the library that had taught Nikolai military history, strategy, chemistry, astronomy. Each spine had been an open door away whispering, Come in, come in. Here is the land you鈥檝e never seen before. Here is a place to hide when you鈥檙e frightened, to play when you鈥檙e bored, to rest when the world seems unkind.”
― King of Scars
― King of Scars

“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.”
― Shouldn't You Be in School?
― Shouldn't You Be in School?

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them.
- Florence Day”
― The Dead Romantics
- Florence Day”
― The Dead Romantics

“Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.'
They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.”
― xxxHolic, Vol. 7
They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.”
― xxxHolic, Vol. 7

“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most about Marlowe, just so I can write you a poem worthy of Shakespeare. I've made books my lovers, hours my enemies and you the only story.”
― Your Body is an Ocean: Love and Other Experiments
― Your Body is an Ocean: Love and Other Experiments

“Reality doesn鈥檛 always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.”
― Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry
― Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry

“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.”
― Sunset Park
― Sunset Park

“But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.”
― The Grownup
― The Grownup

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”
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“No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of anything.”
― The Devil's Eyes
― The Devil's Eyes

“The hours tick by as I lie in bed.
Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.”
― Alone in Paris
Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.”
― Alone in Paris

“Henry was inclined to drift towards books as keenly as a duck paddles for bread crusts.”
― The Fish That Climbed a Tree
― The Fish That Climbed a Tree

“芦A book can't take the place of a man!禄
芦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.禄”
― Sunset in Central Park
芦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.禄”
― Sunset in Central Park

“Jake always liked his books and stories. And writing in his diaries. It was a comfort for him. He could work through things that way.鈥�
鈥淭hat鈥檚 nice. I鈥檝e noticed he still likes to write. He spends a lot of time writing.鈥�
鈥淭hat鈥檚 how he makes sense of the world.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
鈥淭hat鈥檚 nice. I鈥檝e noticed he still likes to write. He spends a lot of time writing.鈥�
鈥淭hat鈥檚 how he makes sense of the world.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“There is a sort of busy worm,
That will the fairest book deform.
Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint
The poet, patriot, sage or saint,
Nor sparing wit nor learning.
Now, if you鈥檇 know the reason why,
The best of reasons I鈥檒l supply:
鈥橳is bread to the poor vermin.
J. Doraston, quoted by W. Blades”
― Inkheart
That will the fairest book deform.
Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint
The poet, patriot, sage or saint,
Nor sparing wit nor learning.
Now, if you鈥檇 know the reason why,
The best of reasons I鈥檒l supply:
鈥橳is bread to the poor vermin.
J. Doraston, quoted by W. Blades”
― Inkheart

“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life failed me.”
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“I want you to hold on to that. no matter what happens you remember that this world is more than the Agony it contains. we can have happiness , salama. may be it doesn't come in a Cookie Cutter format but will take the fragments and we will rebuild it”
― As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
― As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“If this turns out to be all we have, I'll cherish it for the rest of my life. Maybe we're like the butterfly when it emerges from its cocoon,鈥� she said, returning to the cocoon analogy she had used before. 鈥淭he butterfly emerges, amazingly beautiful, but only lives for a short time. Maybe that's us, and we're the butterfly, beautiful for a short time but not meant to last,鈥� she said as tears spilled from her eyes once again.
That's How You Know by Julie Simmons (Chapter 14)”
― That's How You Know
That's How You Know by Julie Simmons (Chapter 14)”
― That's How You Know

“Oh my love, don't you know by now that, for me, making love to you is so much more than just physical? When I make love to you, I'm making love to everything that is the pure essence of you: your beautiful mind, your kind heart and everything else that I love about you.鈥�
That's How You Know by Julie Simmons (Chapter 20)”
― That's How You Know
That's How You Know by Julie Simmons (Chapter 20)”
― That's How You Know

“I have found time and time again that people's childhood comfort book prefigures, to an almost comical degree which they cannot always see, their adult mission in life.”
― The Bookseller's Tale
― The Bookseller's Tale

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