#ok

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#books

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#books

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#books

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#infinite-jest #books

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#bookstore #towns #books

A house without books is like a room without windows. ↗

— Horace Mann

#house #simile #windows #books

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. ↗

— Jane Austen

#catherine #or-the-bower #books

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#castle #self #books

My library is an archive of longings. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#library #longing #books

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#books