E Books Quotes

Over there!" "Where?" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see something?

Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.

. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!

I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

I only want power so I can get books.

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.