The Most Beautiful Quotes and Sayings about Life.

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.

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My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

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Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

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If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

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She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

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There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

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What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

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I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

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Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

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One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

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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.

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Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

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Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

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There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

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Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

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And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

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Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

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My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

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Of course I loved books more than people.

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Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

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It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

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The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

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This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

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You cannot open a book without learning something.

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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.

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If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

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

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