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“So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it.”
― Carla H Krueger

“That evening, in her apartment, still in Warsaw, Ana takes down a book from her shelf â€� a rather thick, ordinary paperback. It looks old, because it's worn out and somehow shabby. But it's not ordinary. I can tell by the way she handles it so carefully, like something unique. 'This is the book I told you about,' she says, holding out the Anthology of Feminist Texts, a collection of early American feminist essays, 'the only feminist book translated into the Polish language,' the only such book to turn to when you are sick and tired of reading about man-eater/man-killer feminists from the West, I think, looking at it, imagining how many women have read this one copy. 'Sometimes I feel like I live on Jupiter, among Jupiterians, and then one day, quite by chance, I discover that I belong to another species. And I discover it in this book. Isn't that wonderful.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“I have sometimes dreamt that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards- their crowns, their laurels , their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble-the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say , not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, ' Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.”
― Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book?

“I "love" reading.
It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind.

I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry.”
― Moffat Machingura

“Há muitas portas para Fantasia, meu rapaz. Há muitos outros livros mágicos. Muitas pessoas nunca percebem isto. Tudo depende da pessoa em cujas mãos o livro vai parar.”
― Michael Ende

“Books are the silent mentors that teach us, inspire us, and shape our understanding of the world."
-Seazanna Tennille”
― Seazanna Tennille

“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . .”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“- BineînÈ›eles că-mi place. Sunt cărÈ›i aici.”
― Margaret Rogerson

“He sat across from me, his face as happy as a child awaiting a treat. “I cannot wait. It’s been here for weeks and I’ve stared at it as one would a sweetheart.â€�

I laughed again. “Books might be better than a sweetheart. They never let us down, do they?”
― Tess Thompson, A Match for a Bookish Bride