#ok

There was something beautiful and timeless to her about a hardback without its jacket, a book that could be known in no way except by reading it. ↗

— Christopher R. Beha

#beauty

Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all round me. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#library #words #beauty

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#books #invention #stories #things #beauty

Willing emancipates: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall you learn! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#thus-spoke-zarathustram #willing #beauty

There were heavy beams - planks of sun - falling randomly, wonderfully, onto the road. Clouds arched their backs to lok behind as they started again to move on. 'It's such a beautiful day,' he said, and his voice was in many pieces. A great day to die. A great day to die, like this. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#the-book-thief #beauty

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#best #chase #easy #everybody #feel

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#carriers #civilization #crippled #dumb #history

The More you do the better you become ↗

— Dena Tyson

#dena-tyson #give-me-the-strength #inspirational #stroke #courage

Then, when the stars came out, Ma took out her fiddle. We all quieted down while she tuned the strings, and I got the funniest feeling. I felt as if I was looking at everyone from far away in space, or maybe even in time. They all looked so beautiful sitting in the darkness of the woods under the stars. Their faces were pink and warm and happy in the firelight. I felt perfectly happy and perfectly sad all at the same time, and tears came into my eyes. ↗

— Kristin Kladstrup

#the-book-of-story-beginnings #beauty

My favorite genre is Beautifully Written Books of Any Genre. Could we make that a genre? ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#genre #beauty