#read

Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies…. ↗

— David Levithan

#humor #humor

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it. ↗

— Alexander Theroux

#humor #humour #literature #reading #vocabulary

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. ↗

— Steve Wright

#reading #humor

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice. ↗

— Katherine Hannigan

#love

Sometimes I think together we are the worst kind of calamity." Thayer grinned back. Severine's lips burned. "Then I've never wanted to be destroyed so bad. ↗

— Calia Read

#every-which-way #love #relationships #severine #sloan-brothers

Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa. ↗

— Kiru Taye

#reading #love

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read ↗

— Harper Lee

#love

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#propaganda #reading #thinking #business

I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The bulk of what I know about human life I’ve gotten from novels. And I think the thing about novels that make them important to the people who love them is that there’s always another perspective. ↗

— Tom Perrotta

#life #reading #tom-perrotta #life

You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day. ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#cliche #feelings #love #reading #love