Books Quote by Steven Brust

“I really do like curses. They can’t fail, that’s the beauty of them. Any bad thing that happens to either boy, from now until…

— Cherie Priest

“I hate lending, or borrowing—if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright. Your loaned…

— Leah Price

“The most dangerous part of lending books lies in the returning. At such times, friendships hang by a thread. I look for agony, ecstasy,…

— Anatole Broyard

“The book borrower… proves himself to be an in venerate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his…

— Walter Benjamin

“People's curses will become your clue to win. The trash they think you have will become the treasure for greatness they will plead to…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Curses aren’t made to be permanent. They like to be broken or they become resentful that everyone’s forgotten about them,”

— Roshani Chokshi

“ON THE RETURN OF A BOOK LENT TO A FRIEND I GIVE humble and hearty thanks for the safe return of this book which…

— Christopher Morley

“Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

— Tom Stoppard

“If you are straightforward, then others will have no choice but to be straightforward with you. If someone curses you, is he doing so…

— Dada Bhagwan

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

— Gilles Menage

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

— Ally Carter