Alice Quote by Beatrice Sparks

“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.”

— Anna Quindlen

“If books could kill, I would have written more of them before I died.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

“I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly missing.”

— Vince Passaro

“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were.…

— Wendell Berry

“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your heart.”

— Holly Black

“how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your…

— Julian Barnes

“Without books, I would have gone insane long ago.”

— Damien Echols

“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest…

— Cassandra Clare

“I can not live without books.”

— Thomas Jefferson