E Books Quotes

Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside.

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, 'The medicines of the soul.

Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

Too many books. Too few centuries.

There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.

What is reading but silent conversation.

Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our

Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!''Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!

My books are friends that never fai

It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends, " says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.

Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages...

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

I love that books allow us to experience other lives without us ever having to change where we live or who we are.

The world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.You must trust me.I am telling you a story.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..

Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.

It had filled my time - given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less ... alone.

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

My grandfather says that's what books are for, " Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them

Don't you ever mind, " she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

Computers don't kill books people do.

Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.