#books

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#reading #life

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#escape #literature #reading #words #life

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#viewing-others #life

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#reading #reading-books #life

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#brooks #life #survival #life

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#life #reading #life

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read - Mamie Doran ↗

— Elizabeth Knox

#dreamhunter #knox #rainbow-opera #reading #life

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken. ↗

— Susan Vaught

#fiction #life-lesson #life

ندوخ حين لا تتوازن صور الحياة مع ما نقرؤه في الكتب... ومذ تعلمنا القراءة اختلف العالم فأيهما كاذب يا ترى!! ↗

— لبابة محمد زهير أبوصالح

#life #life

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose. ↗

— Nusrat Sultana

#characters #confidence #hope #inspirational #life