Books Quotes

“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”

Books may well be the only true magic.

I can't read without eating candy ... so books are very unhealthy for me.

Myrnin (vampire): “Did you know you can find almost anything on the new computer network, the Interweb? I was quite amazed”
Myrnin hadn't paid much attention in the last hundred years or so. Claire wasn't too surprised he'd discovered the Internet, though. Wait until he finds the porn. That would be a very uncomfortable conversation"

It's quite insulting to our intelligence that you claim you don't know what sales you make in the UK.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Computers don't kill books, people do

...as 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."

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you...Books break the shackles of time...proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Kids don't know about bestsellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star-chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.

Kids Books... Grownup books... That's just marketing. Books are books!

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.

The way a book smells when you thumb through it. The way quiet winter air makes you feel like no one else exists. The smell of the woods after a thunderstorm. That split second before your chair tips back. The feeling right before you cry. The euphoria before the heartbreak. That moment when you wonder if they think of you the way you think of them. These things, I live for.

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapeast way information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.