#boo

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. ↗

— Douglas Jerrod

#companion #friend #life

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books. ↗

— Hilda van Stockum

#books #loneliness #reading #life

I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots. ↗

— Andrea Koehle Jones

#children-s-books #children-s-literature #roots #strength-of-character #tree-of-life

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#fiction #human-nature #stories #life

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. ↗

— George Orwell

#life

All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important. ↗

— Isabelle Rowan

#fiction #life-lessons #life

Ah, ka-lyrra, I look at you and you make me want to live a man's life with you. To wake with you and sleep with you, argue with you and make love with you, to get a silly human job and take walks in the park and live so tiny beneath such a vast sky. But I will never stay with another human woman and water her die. Never. --FROM THE (GREATLY REVISED) BLACK EDITION OF THE O'CALLAGHAN Book of the Sin Siriche Du ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#book-of-the-sin-siriche-du #gabby #karen-marie-moning #love #sad

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life. ↗

— Maria Kodama

#jorge-luis-borges #literature #maria-kodama #reading #life

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#talking-about-books #life

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name and buried treasure. Face your life, it's pain, it's pleasure, Leave no path untaken. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life