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- you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never…
- Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.
- Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books…
- Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way,…
- a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
- Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the…
- I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and…
- You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think…
- Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
- So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice,…
- She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she…
- The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed…
- You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
- Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
- All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away…
- Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that…
- Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far…
- Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way…
- She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them…
- Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the…
- We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a…
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- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood