librariansti’s most recent Quotables

The relationship of a girl and her favorite novel can be complex indeed.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Books are a delightful society. If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Go forward in all of your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape;...it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner.

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. [...] to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life

I live for books / And light to read them in.