Age Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

— Miljenko Jergovic

“Books Fall Open Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where, you've never been. Hear voices not once heard before, Reach world through world,…

— David McCord

“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned,…

— Sofia Samatar

“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its…

— Bruno Schulz

“Trying to have your first book read when you’re a perfect stranger feels like waving at people, in a dark room, when everyone is…

— Charles Bonnaire

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf”

— Christopher Paolini

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward…

— Jodi Picoult

“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when…

— Fay Weldon

“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced…

— Italo Calvino

“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding…

— Jazz Feylynn

“Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book. You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the story as…

— Thomas Wharton

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel…

— Laura Nowlin