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“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Will grinned. “Some of these books are dangerous,�� he said. “It’s wise to be careful.”“One must always be careful of books,�� said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”“I’m not sure a book has ever changed me,�� said Will. “Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep—”“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,�� said Tessa”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“ako, ang hinahangaan kong tao na mahilig sa libro e yung may matututunan ka pag kausap mo, yung makikita mong naging marunong at mabuti siyang tao dahil sa pagbabasa niya ng mga libro.”
― Bob Ong, Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin

“Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?”
― Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be

“Reading's my reward at the end of the day”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.”
― Tara Bray Smith

“I remember only how I fell into books, never to rise from their pages, how I was never truly awake until I began to dream of other worlds��.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Lives of Saints

“Books open new worlds to me.”
― Aya Ling, The Ugly Stepsister

“If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened”
― L.J. deVet

“only bookworms get excited over other bookworms”
― Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel

“Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.”
― S.R. McKade

“Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.”
― A.W. Exley, Ella, the Slayer

“Reading was her escape from the world, and within the pages she could become anyone she wanted to be. Sometimes she was a beautiful princess, and sometimes she was a brave heroine.”
― Carla Reighard, The Web of Loki

“There's a story behind every Bookworm"!”
― Annie Lang, Bookworms Know Stuff!

“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The same books that kill us keep us alive.”
― Lea

“perhaps there had been something a little obsessive about it, the way she’d consumed the shelves of the local library, Blyton to Jansson, C. S. Lewis to P. G. Wodehouse, Christie then du Maurier then the Brontës, reading indiscriminately but always passionately, so that even her dislikes were passionate. Dickens, she thought, was preachy and silly, like a teacher putting on funny voices, but never mind, here were Jane Austen and Sue Townsend, Ursula K. Le Guin and Jean M. Auel, and each Saturday morning she’d return her stack of library books, the maximum permitted, placing them on the counter, like a gambler cashing in chips.”
― David Nicholls, You Are Here

“Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction between Jilly Cooper and Edith Wharton. There were stories on film and TV and, a little later, in the rolling melodrama of the internet, but those were team activities, noisy and social. Private, intimate, a book was something she could pull around and over herself, like a quilt.”
― David Nicholls, You Are Here

“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

“Escribir es el lenguaje universal para expresar sentimientos, para tocar vidas donde sea que aniden...Es el lienzo en blanco para construir nuevos sueños".”
― Liz Hay

“Writers are only ever as good as their readers.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“Some people have asked me where I find the large quantity of prepositions that I need to keep my Bookworms fit and well. The answer is, of course, that I use omitted prepositions, of which, when mixed with dropped definite articles, make a nourishing food. There are a superabundance of these in the English language”
― Jasper Fforde

“BERNARD. (To DONALD.) Donald, read any new libraries lately?

DONALD. One or three. I did the complete works of Doris Lessing this week. I've been depressed.

[. . .]

BERNARD. Some people eat, some people drink, and some take dope.

DONALD. I read.

MICHAEL. And read and read and read. It's a wonder your eyes don't turn back in your head at the sight of a book jacket.

HANK. Well, at least he's a constructive escapist.”
― Mart Crowley

“Sometimes I think my brain opened as far as it could go when I was about seventeen, and its doors have been just stuck there ever since. And now they're ossifying and collecting cobwebs, and things are spilling in, swirling around for a bit, and then flying out again. And someday they'll start to swing slowly shut, and I'll be left in the dark with nothing but a few rustling fragments of thoughts that get thinner and weaker every time I use them. Like tea leaves. And sometimes I think I can do anything.”
― H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

“Points of light. They make a map, or a pattern,or a constellation. Formless, intricate, infinitely complex, and lovely. And then, at once, they'll connect. They'll meet, and explode. Of course. That's the entire point. That's how the story works, the way each sentence and metaphor and reference feeds into the other to illuminate something important. That explosion of discovery, of understanding, is the most intoxicating moment there is. Emotional, intellectual, aesthetic. Just for a moment, a perfect moment, a small piece of the world makes perfect sense. And it's beautiful. It's a moment of pure joy, the kind that brings pleasure like pain.”
― H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

“So many books, so little time.”
― Anonymous

“No country can develop without science - it will be destroyed by its neighbors. Without arts and general culture, the country loses its capacity for self-criticism, begins to encourage faulty tendencies, starts to constantly spawn hypocrites and scum, develops consumerism and conceit in its citizens, and eventually again becomes a victim of its more sensible neighbors. Persecute bookworms all you like, prohibit science, and destroy art, but sooner or later you'll be forced to think better of it, and with much gnashing of teeth open the way for everything that is so hated by the power-hungry dullards and blockheads.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Hard to Be a God