#ok

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#book #book-lovers #books #reading #reading-books

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#love

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book. ↗

— Sylvia Brownrigg

#love #love

She says she's OK. She says she is fine. but underneath that smile is a broken heart ↗

— -anonymous

#love #love

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time. ↗

— Emma Watson

#another #another time #back #book #books

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#bookshelves #bookstore #friend #love

There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#love #pain #love

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me. ↗

— Helene Hanff

#love

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #jordan-kyle #love #screwed-up #simon-lewis

People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#reading #teen #love