In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortalcoil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.

The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

No construirás una máquina a semejanza de la mente del hombre.-Biblia católica naranja-

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.

I can read people like an open book, especially if their named Braille, and I’m in a touchy-feely mood.

All I've done is give you a book," she said. "You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it.

The world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.You must trust me.I am telling you a story.

A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh."[Afterword]