#book

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons. ↗

— Joe Queenan

#poverty #diversity

I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that? ↗

— Amalie Howard

#bloodspell-book #books-for-teens #urban-fantasy #victoria #young-adult

Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#excellence

...when everything changes, I need a bookmark - I need you... ↗

— John Geddes

#bookmark #dependence #love #pause #selah

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely. ↗

— Mo Willems

#libraries #library #literary #obvious #sage-advice

It was just like in her books, but better, amplified, because it was her heart and her breath and it was real. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#love #love

RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics. ↗

— Leah Price

#ipad #kindle #technology #love

While you were protecting me from the world, just never thought you'd be my greatest enemy ↗

— Vivian E. Moore

#love

The book and I secret ourselves Behind the paneled door. We merge our thoughts in retrospect Of ancient mystic lore. We spend a pleasant quiet hour, Nor know it passed us by... The easy chair, the shaded lamp, A well-loved book and I. ↗

— Edna Moore Schultz

#reading #love

People don’t write sonnets about being compatible. Or novels about sharing life goals and stimulating conversation. The great loves are the crazy ones. ↗

— Blair Waldorf

#boring #love #shakespeare #life