#boo

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #complicated #dare #i

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#energy policy #jobs #lack #our #out

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #heroic-fantasy

I am a cookbook fanatic. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#cookbook #fanatic #i #i am

Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#books #men #stay #yet

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#book #looking #necessary #next #read

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. ↗