#ok

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. ↗

— George Carlin

#children-s-literature #literature

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book. ↗

— Al Pacino

#literature #reading #literature

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down. ↗

— Lewis Black

#budget #comedy #economy #fire #police

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#fiction #memory

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk. ↗

— James D. Sass

#noremorse #read #reading #satan

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#wind

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what. ↗

— John Green

#alaska-young #fiction #looking-for-alaska #miles #fiction

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#behavior

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#ask #best #best way #books #divine

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore