#boo

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there. ↗

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind ↗

— Andy Andrews

#life

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions. ↗

— Sara Nelson

#reading #life

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. ↗

— Harold S. Kushner

#life #life

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#reading #life

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#literature #reading #life

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ↗

— John Milton

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Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#escapism #life #reading #life

there are some things in life a person just cant know ↗

— Sarah Weeks

#life

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. ↗