books

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’."

"When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light."

"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life…"

"If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality."

"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be…"

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

"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 loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to b…"

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"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 train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel…"

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead."

"She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about t…"

"Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you."

"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."

"I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all wri…"

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books"

"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."