#books

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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I plan to learn enough to read you like a book. ↗

— Sylvia Brownrigg

#love #love

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time. ↗

— Emma Watson

#another #another time #back #book #books

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#bookshelves #bookstore #friend #love

She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf. ↗

— Barbara Michaels

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And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever. ↗

— Peter Ackroyd

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You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts. ↗

— Melissa Marr

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Loving Sarah was like reading a particularly good book. That pressing and overwhelming need to just devour it as fast as possible is matched only by the need to savour it slowly and completely, lest all come to an end too soon. The all-consuming emotions are so many and varied that it is almost impossible to pick out one for a few minutes attention. They mainly stay jumbled and unattended, and for the most part not entirely understood or satisfied. But then, maybe it is in the understanding of our love for someone that the love itself disappears altogether. If so, then I don't want to understand, and I remain content to simply experience her. Somehow, the more I learn about Sarah, the better I understand myself. And the more I fall in love. ↗

— Nadine Rose Larter

#love #experience

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#curiosity #knowledge #seduction #vice #love

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization. ↗

— Thomas Cahill

#irish #literacy #life