#reading

بربك لا تبكِ بكاء المظلوم ! إن زرت أوطاني يوماً ولمحت نوافذ إنتظاري مغلقة وأبواب فقدي لك مؤصدة ، بربك لا تبكِ بكاء المظلوم ! إن إحتفلوا بيوم ميلادك وبحثت عن صوتي بينهم .. ولم تجده ؟ وبحثت عن هداياي من بين هداياهم ولم تصلك ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it. ↗

— Mark Glamack

#books #family #fantasy #friends #novel

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#reading #family

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#friend #friendship #reading #sharing #friendship

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it. ↗

— Alejandro Zambra

#act-of-writing #alejandro-zambra #bonsai #inspiring-writers #reading

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#better #days #i #our time #reading

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words. ↗

— Eric Ripert

#beauty

I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure. ↗

— Susan Hill

#print-books #reading #beauty

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#literature #poetry #reading #beauty

If she were running through the rye, if she were headed towards the abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of my strength, with every scared beat of my heart, with every thought that could only be for her. And if I were to be running the same way, I’d like to think she’d do the same. But maybe her hands would be busy holding the book. Maybe she wouldn’t see me, too intent on looking for Phoebe from the carousel. Or waiting for Holden to hold her, to wrap her in the pages of his arms, to say she was the only one who truly knew him, as I plunged past her, sad to be leaving, and a little happy to be away. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #reading #business