Do not let a book get you in a reading slump

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Before there were books, we read each other.

It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.

This is the true alchemy - the transformation of fear into love. It's available to all of us. It can save the world.

A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential

We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books

For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.

Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.

There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.

As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

With Kindness 1+1 always equals more than 2

Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.

Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.

It's always easy to judge from afar