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“We're not helpless. Novels are full of ragtag bands facing impossible odds.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“When I was a kid, my mother didn't read to me. She was always groggy, tired. I work a double and I get home and now you want me to read to you? No one was going to read to me so I learned to read to me. You can do that, you can read the story out loud and if the story is good enough, you transcend the limits of your ego. You split. You become the reader and the listener, the child and the adult. You beat the system. You beat your doom. Reading saved my life when I was a sweaty little kid and it saves my life again today because I always carry a book.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“Let us read with method, and to propose to ourselves an to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.”
― Edward Gibbon

“It isn’t about how many books you read. What counts is the books you re-read.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“I started carrying an old tour book for the Florida Keys in my bag with me at all times. I'd had it since I was a kid, and after my daddy died, I read it to escape back to memories of him taking me there. As I read it to my guys, we'd leave whatever hospital we were in, and go somewhere beautiful, away from trouble and worry. They'd all come home to Arkansas, a place that had birthed them but wouldn't claim them. So we left.

. . . We went someplace else, where they were safe and warm. Where there was nothing to be hidden and nothing wrong with admiring the way the sun shone down on the beauty of men. As it it existed for that very reason -- to be admired and loved.”
― Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

“If you ever get bored, let the words scream in your head.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“If you find it interesting enough to write, someone will find it interesting enough to read.”
― Carmela Dutra

“Reading together is an activity least talked about, but once you flip pages together, you flip many moments together.”
― Akansh Malik, Your's Truly, Forever!

“So what does it mean, that Peyton Place by Grace Metalious sold more copies than Sanctuary by William Faulkner? It means that reading has as many functions as the human body, and that not all of them are cerebral. One is mere entertainment, the pleasurable whiling away of time; another is more important, not intellectual but serious just the same. "She had learned something comforting," Roald Dahl wrote in Matilda of his ever-reading protagonist, "that we are not alone." And if readers use words and stories as much, or more, to lessen human isolation as to expand human knowledge, is that somehow unworthy, invalid, and unimportant?”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“A book already dies in your hand when you’ve decided what to read next. A page must make us take a wrong turn, a book a new path, an author a new friend, a chapter a shortage of breath, and a lesson a different life.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

“...read books through the lens of life preparation.”
― Kelly Gallagher, Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

“Beneath the nice book cover, camera angles, format of the page, size of the canvas, sound of the song â€� was someone with something to say.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Some haven’t read the Bible and yet hate it. To anyone, I say: there is one book on your planet that may have an answer, that has survived ages and debates, and you have never cared to read it? What was so important?”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Many more looked around at happy and unhappy things alike, left the room, and agreed to the pen. It’s a weird occasion, writing is. It appears as peaceful, silent years of nothing, but implies the valor of someone fighting a lifelong monster. To decide to wield the pen is a win with no victory. But some lines of theirs were more important than satisfaction. What is a bookshelf but a place for us to see all the nights our dearest of friends did not see their own?”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“A writer = a worried person picking up a pen, in the face of death, writing to unlimited strangers to say, “Look!”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“To see love and sacrifice, stand before a bookshelf. To feel love and sacrifice, pick a book and open it. To love and sacrifice, add one.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Who taught you to swear first? Who burst your head wide open with a sentence? Whose linguistic tics have you ingested, do you know, bust out without thinking”
― Ander Monson, Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries

“Worries genius or happy simpleton? The moment you get caught with the reading bug and learning, you get addicted to it, and you have to know that your mind is going to process stuff and the debate starts happening [in the head] and it’s foreverâ€� it never stops. You lose a little bit of happiness when you get too interested in wanting to get certain questions answered in life because it’s never going to end. If you choose to subscribe to wanting to be a lifelong learner you must be ready to lose some happiness and freedom that you once had when you didn’t know everything.”
― Patrick Bet-David

“Worried genius or happy simpleton? The moment you get caught with the reading bug and learning, you get addicted to it, and you have to know that your mind is going to process stuff and the debate starts happening [in the head] and it’s foreverâ€� it never stops. You lose a little bit of happiness when you get too interested in wanting to get certain questions answered in life because it’s never going to end. If you choose to subscribe to wanting to be a lifelong learner you must be ready to lose some happiness and freedom that you once had when you didn’t know everything.”
― Patrick Bet-David

“Shakespeare could do anything with words. You are not more intelligent than he--so don't try to fix his writing. Try to understand it. If the language is clumsy or contradictory--consider why? Every word was deliberately chosen. Trust me.”
― Ethan Hawke

“However vast any person’s basic reading may be, there still remain an enormous number of fundamental works that he has not read.”
― Italo Calvino

“Free your mind and your ass will follow”
― Funkadelic

“He began reading her eyes more deeply and passionately than the books in the library.”
― Avijeet Das

“Even people who can't read are impressed by books.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“If you read a novel to the end, then it’s over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I’d much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound forever.”
― Koko Ogawa

“I sometimes think that good readers are poets as singular, and as awesome, as great authors them-selves.”
― Buenos Aires - JLB

“Behind every great line is a mirror - reflecting the reader, only meant to agree with him.”
― Laura Chouette

“Reading is wise man's source of wisdom.”
― Lokesh kaushik

“I tell my first-year law students that they will be learning how to read. "Huh? We've known how to read since we were six!" Sure, that's true, in the sense that students come to law school knowing cognitively how to translate black-and-white marks on a page into words. But what I mean by read is different. It requires you to isolate phrases, then individual words, and then figure out as many interpretations of those words as possible. Once you have the various options on the table, you can start to prioritize the options and choose which is best---or at least how to argue for one over the other on behalf of a client. This is a skill, and one that is becoming increasingly rare in a world of information overload, texts, tweets, and sound bites.”
― Kim Wehle, How to Read the Constitution - and Why