#boo

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#memory #roses #l-m-montgomery

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#censorship #censorship

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#questions #read #twitter #twitter

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fame #lolita #names #obscure #writers

And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh? ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#stargirl #respect

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. ↗

— Holbrook Jackson

#censorship #censorship

When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book. ↗

— Craig Nelson

#catalog #censorship #censorship

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. ↗

— George MacDonald

#fate #reading #mac

Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads. -You're just making that up, Jean. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#service

Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.” —Zarost ↗

— Greg Hamerton

#fantasy-fiction #greed #power #wisdom #greed