#ok

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#humor #reading #humor

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#catch- #humor

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#dragons #fairy-tales #inspirational #paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton #inspirational

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inspirational #reading #tea #inspirational

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#the-notebook #inspirational

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty. ↗

— Andrew Wolfe

#inspirational #love #simile #truth #inspirational

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#life

Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book. ↗

— Robert Goolrick

#reading #love

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