#ding

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#literature #reading #emotion

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#emotion

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#insanity #misunderstandings #sisters #crazy

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. ↗

— Laura Miller

#lit #reading #security

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#reading #reading-books #tessa-gray #will-herondale #character

Q: So, why do you write these strong female characters? Whedon: Because you’re still asking me that question. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#progress #understanding #character

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#character-development #growth #reading #character

Do you like foreign films?” “With subtitles?” “Yes.” “I hate those types of films.” “Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because - “ “No happy endings. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#happy-endings #film

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#literature #reading #words #writing #funny

There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#understanding #wise