#books

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#burning #envy #human-nature #marlowe #writing

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch! ↗

— Julie Murphy

#arachnids #children-s-books #nature #spider #nature

Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself is a changeable thing, from season to season, from a sunny day to rain, from an egg to a flying bird in a matter of weeks. (Source: "The Nature of Cinderella".) ↗

— Marie Rutkoski

#fairy-tales #stories #telling-tales #writing #nature

It has always been my belief that if you don’t ask the right questions, you won’t get the right answers. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#made-in-the-image-of-god #philosophy #philosophy-of-religion #reid-ashbaucher #religion

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#respect

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#books #constant #counselors #friends #most

The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#inner-voice #leaders #parents #right #teachers

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#technology

It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited in their awesomeness. ↗

— John Green

#technology #technology

The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres. ↗

— Luther E. Vann

#art #art-books #beauty #communities #creativity