#books

My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes... ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#mother #love

Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. ↗

— Joe Queenan

#books-about-books #ebooks #love

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#dreams #dreams

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#life #love #life

Perhaps they were right putting love into books, perhaps it could not exist anywhere else. ↗

— William Faulkner

#love #so-true-for-me #love

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. ↗

— Tracy Letts

#love

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#imprisonment #life

Jack shook his head. 'Books. What is it with women and books? My sisters were the same. They were always buying books for boys they fancied.' Ellie bent down and picked up the stone and put it on the table. 'It's like sending a love letter without having to write it yourself,' she said softly. ↗

— Hazel Osmond

#courtship #love-letters #love

A half-read book is like a half-finished love affair. ↗

— David Mitchell

#reading #love

I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle of an unrumored continent. I love the large minority of the writers on my shelves who have struggled with words and thoughts and, by my lights, have lost the struggle. All together they are my community, the creators of the very idea of books, poetry, and extended narratives, and of the amazing human conversation that has taken place across the millennia, through weal and woe, over the heads of interest and utility. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#narrative #poetry #reading-books #writers #love