#books

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. ↗

— Gabriel Zaid

#composure #culture #unread #age

He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #merlin

Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519? ↗

— Priya Ardis

#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

You'll get fired if anyone finds out about us!" "So many rules in this century," Vane muttered. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

People tend to find books when they are ready for them. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#books #find #finding #neil-gaiman #ready

Well, can you tell her that?" He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will." Guy-speak for, "I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #merlin

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you’re better off not touching it until you’re all grown up. I’m going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don’t open it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#children #learning #maturity #reading #age

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fiction #imagination #age

Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire's own heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they'd learned, what they'd seen, what they'd felt. Wasn't that magic? ↗

— Christi Phillips

#magic #old-books #voices #age