#reading

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#chance

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. ↗

— Mark Twain

#classic #reading #people

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#reading #people

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. ↗

— Mark Twain

#people

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#children-s-books #reading #story

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#reading #action

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#character #characters #ideas #impact #reading

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #story

Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning." "Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?" "I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though." "Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?" "You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering." "Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#frostbite #mason #reading #richelle-mead #rose

Reading brings us unknown friends ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#honor