#read

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener. ↗

— Paula Fox

#children #reading #nature

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#face #gift #handsomeness #looks #reading

Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women, you're supposed to make conversation?" she added; her half smile was perhaps meant to be ironic, though to Amedeo, who at that moment would have paid anything rather than give up his novel, it seemed downright threatening. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#lectophilia #mixed-marriages-never-work #reading #relationship-nightmare #run-away

I would drink that whole bottle if I knew it wouldn’t get me completely drunk. I miss wine.” “Um, you haven’t had it for one night, and you miss it?” “Clearly, you underestimate my relationship with wine and what I do on the weekends when I’m by myself reading. ↗

— Rachel Van Dyken

#reading #the-bet #wine #relationship

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#literature #reading #religion

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights ↗

— Ephraim the Syrian

#religion #religion

We read to know that we are not alone. ↗

— William Nicholson

#alone

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. ↗

— David Mitchell

#dreams

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#reading #love

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#society