candid, adj.
"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
Ross MacdonaldStichwörter: reading books literature escapism
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
Jasper FfordeStichwörter: humor life reading books philosophy
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: inspirational reading readers reading-books readers-and-writers reasons-for-reading
Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.
Joan DidionAll good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
Eugene FieldStichwörter: reading books book-lovers bibliophiles bed
My arms are killing me.
I didn't know words could be so heavy.
We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: reading mind language brain
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]
Stichwörter: reading books education fantasy children-s-literature atlas-shrugged ayn-rand lord-of-the-rings life-changing real-world jrr-tolkien
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.
Sei ShōnagonStichwörter: reading books stories enjoyment
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