A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

I've always loved joining clubs--although, in truth, they're usually book clubs." ~Robecca Steam

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

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

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.

Do I dare ask him for what I want,As if I knew it,Could find it on some pageIn some chapterIn some book?

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

You know how dey say some people “devour” books? Not in da way ME do! Me REALLY devour books!

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.