If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
François Mauriac
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
Dave Eggers
When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
Irving Stone
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
John Green
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.
Alessandro Baricco
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
George R.R. Martin
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
Jasper Fforde
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
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