#books

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice ↗

— Howell James

#friends #friendship #friendship

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#art

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks-- ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#books-of-ember #city-of-ember #friendship #jeanne-duprau #strength

Ignoraba que las palabras pudieran pesar tanto. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#friendship #love #markus-zusak #messenger #friendship

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#because #being #books #companionship #conscious

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#reading #funny

Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?" Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#funny #funny

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away. ↗

— Seanan McGuire

#funny #ironic #rosemary-and-rue #seanan-mcguire #funny

Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off. ↗

— Eva Rice

#men #art

SHUT UP. Both of you. You're coming with me." To me he said, "Put some pants on." "Fuck you. This is my house. I make the rules. You take your clothes off. John, get the Twister mat. ↗

— David Wong

#funny #vulgar #funny