#book

But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through,’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark. ↗

— Sarra Manning

#love

Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#love #love

There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#bookworm #love #love

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. ↗

— Loretta Chase

#humor #humor

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals. ↗

— Jonathan Kieran

#blogs #books #goodreads #humor #jonathan-kieran

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money. ↗

— George Orwell

#bookshops #humor #london #lunatics #madness

I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again." But some people treat books that way. Not I! ↗

— Karen A. Wyle

#funny #humor #reading #funny

Ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#inspirational #inspirational

We lose our soul, to find our life. ↗

— Joanne Crisner

#inspirational #loss #lost #inspirational

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ↗

— w.e. channing

#age