#ding

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up. ↗

— Amanda Peet

#did #i #jack #just #noticed

A good book is an event in my life. ↗

— Stendhal

#literature #reading #life

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#gives #glut #information #itself #less

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. ↗

— Gary Paulsen

#reading #life

My life is a reading list. ↗

— John Irving

#reading #life

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#reading #life

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#knowing #life #novel #people #worth

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#reading #life

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#life

Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know. ↗

— Ally Carter

#friends #spy #understanding #life