GENTLE READER QUOTES IN BOOKS PORTABLE

Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. “Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Valente in The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making “She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.” – Catherynne M. “The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” – Kurt Vonnegut in A Man Without A Country

“I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.” – Marilynne Robinson “You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.” – Patrick Rothfuss in The Name of the Wind “Books always make a room better.” – Tanya Boteju in Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” – Annie Dillard in The Living

“A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.” – Robert Aris Willmott They are home.” – Anna Quindlen in How Reading Changed My Life They are the destination, and the journey. “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” – Toni Morrison (print from Brighton Gifts) “Books were my pass to personal freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack” – Virginia Woolf in Street Haunting “Books are everywhere and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Martin in A Dance With Dragons (bookmark from Wonderflies) The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. “I love the smell of book ink in the morning.” – Umberto Eco “Words were different when they lived inside of you.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (bookmark from The Quiet Ones Speak) “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. “I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.” – Tahereh Mafi in Shatter Me

“I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges (print from wtfoxart) “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind Maybe that’s kind of perverted or maybe it’s just romantic and highly intelligent.” – Sherman Alexie in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 (print from RedHill Printables) “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.” – Nnedi Okorafor in The Book of Phoenix I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. “Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.” – Ursula K. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.” – Salman Rushdie “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” – Isabel Allende

GENTLE READER QUOTES IN BOOKS PORTABLE

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King in On Writing (print from InkInTheOzarks) Kira Madden in Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls “I can do things like that when I write–pluck any thread of want and weave a whole world.” – T. “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” – Henry Ward Beecher

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami in Norwegian Wood “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” – Louisa May Alcott in Work: A Story of Experience(mug from The Scarlett Llama) They let you travel without moving your feet.” – Jhumpa Lahiri in The Namesake “When I have a little money, I buy books and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” – Erasmus “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – Neil Gaiman in Coraline(print by Aenaon Art Work) “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Gentle reader quotes in books