#ok

Books may well be the only true magic. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#true

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#books #fiction #read #reading #stories

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#people

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. ↗

— Mark Twain

#classic #reading #people

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. ↗

— John Green

#lookingforalaska #people

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#reading #people

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. ↗

— Mark Twain

#people

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal ↗

— John Green

#john-green #reading #the-fault-in-our-stars #people

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#thought #think

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. ↗

— James Baldwin

#empathy #pain #reading #people