Book Quote by Will Schwalbe

“all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for their children.”

— Will Schwalbe

“But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks shows that…

— Will Schwalbe

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so, we turn, among other things, to stories.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in Iraq. Dog-eared,…

— Michael Anthony

“People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”

— Elizabeth Knox

“Books are what I escaped to when I was a kid, and books...unless they're just really piss poor, I get swept up in them…

— Amber Benson

“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own.”

— Kiera Cass

“Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.”

— Richard Denney

“More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.”

— Lorna Sage

“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books…

— Junot Díaz

“the refugees leave a refuge, enter a refuge run to the windows, what they see makes them move on, they move, refuge means move,…

— Hélène Cixous