#ok

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#christopher-paolini #eragon #good-reads #life

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#life #life

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. ↗

— Henry Miller

#power #life

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#reading #love

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#power-of-words #reading #imagination

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. ↗

— David Mitchell

#love #reading #love

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