wallflower’s Loved Quotes

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence."

If you go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

The book is the greatest interactive medium of all time. You can underline it, write in the margins, fold down a page, skip ahead. And you can take it anywhere.

‘classic’. A book which people praise and don’t read.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know *that* is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know *that* is poetry.

It's easier to quote poets than to read them.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Tolle lege, tolle lege. Take up and read, take up and read.

A book is a delicate friend, a white bird, an exquisite being, afraid of water... Darling things! Afraid of water, of fire, they shiver in the wind. Clumsy, crude human fingers leave bruises on them that'll never fade! Never!

People could become better than they are right now by doing one thing: reading! This neglected activity is a pathway to greatness. By reading, people open their minds to be mentored by others whom they may not have the pleasure to meet due to time and space differences. C.S. Lewis, Socrates and Billy Graham are all available to talk when I open a book to listen.

“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francie, “something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don’t understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they’re there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it’s the other side that matters.

Books are for life.  Not just for homework.