Quotes about Books

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A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends. — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite st — Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so — Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and prover — Jane Austen, Persuasion
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. — Shannon L. Alder
My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. — Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour wi — E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some o — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones i — Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the — Jess C. Scott, New Order
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them. — Laurie Notaro, I Love Everybody
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. — Mark Twain
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never t — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order — Gustave Flaubert
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have — Simone de Beauvoir
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and — Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness