Books Quote by Stephanie Skeem

“A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“All men should give books instead of flowers.”

— Amber Scott

“But those who believe that flowers grow in vases don't understand anything about literature. The library has now become her first-aid kit, and she's…

— Antonio Iturbe

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and…

— Max Lucado

“there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

— John Green

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Flowers teach us the philosophy of life - we should live and die beautifully.”

— Anna Stepanova

“You never look at these flowers; therefore they become stale to you. If you would only look into them, then your reading and writing…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I don’t know where you got the idea that the quality of a novel should be judged by the likability of its characters, but…

— John Green

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want…

— Ray Bradbury

“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes, but as…

— Roberto Bolaño