I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

Sometimes God’s way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!''Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...].

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs is good for him

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

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.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.