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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex

Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.

A book is the only immortality

There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

Its better to hold a book between your Fingers than to Hold a Cigarette.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.

The waltz held the feeling you get when you finish a well-loved book. It left me longing for something I couldn't name.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses

....her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through, ’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.

Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.

I've always loved joining clubs--although, in truth, they're usually book clubs." ~Robecca Steam

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

On a day like today, there's no friend like a book.

There is something nice about a library, isn't there?" Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. "The scent of ink and worn, dusty pages.

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.

distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.

That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.

I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.

The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil... my next The Opposite Of Magic.

A book is never finished it's abandoned.

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.

People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its quite acceptable to be anti-intellectual.

Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.

Books open new worlds to me.

Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.

Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for second a book could scintillate forever.

I'd much rather fall to my death than admit my weakness to you.""The captain of the Royal Guard wants to impress a lowly handmaiden?""A clumsy young man wants to impress a beautiful young woman.

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to l

Do I dare ask him for what I want, As if I knew it, Could find it on some pageIn some chapterIn some book?

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

I always say, 'Books beat boredom, ' said Amanda wisely.