All Quotes By Tag: Books

“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.”

“A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.”

“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”

“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.”

“Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.”

“To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live”.”

“It’s a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.”

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

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

“They’re book addicts.”

“Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours – he was incredibly good at it.”

“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you’re off on a journey of exploration and discovery.”

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”