I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]
So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.
Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso, que eran los más del año, se daba a leer.
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.
The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.
My book is a light read. Seriously, it probably weighs 3.33 ounces. That’s pretty impressive, considering it’s an ebook.