#ok

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on... ↗

— Markus Zusak

#the-book-thief #love

Think before you speak. Read before you think. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#books #reader #reading #speaking #thinking

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things. ↗

— John Green

#looking-for-alaska #person

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#writing #want

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. ↗

— Diane Duane

#reading #want

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#want

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. ↗

— Dan Brown

#dan-brown #religion #science #religion

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#jokes #like #look #making #mind

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours ↗

— Alan Bennett

#history #reading #person

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. ↗

— Stephen King

#guns #person