Reading Quotes
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.
The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.
I learned a long time ago that the two things that most impact our lives are the people we spend our time with and the things we read. Yep. Relationships and reading.
Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.
An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.
If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.
Read. You can always talk with another reader.
You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.
Quiet, ” she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. “Otherwise, I’ll shut you up myself.
Clearly, this was another thing I needed to add to the: ‘repetitive cycle of things that were constantly happening in my life’ list, which currently contained fainting and my ability to find trouble.
Of course they were eaten, ” he retorted, his eyes flashing in cold humour. “Trolls generally aren’t exactly renowned for being vegetarians.
A beautiful face like yours should be smiling. Why don't you smile?""I do smile. When something beautiful happens in a book, I can't help but smile.
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.
I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.
People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn'
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.
One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.
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.