It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
Stephen ChboskyTags: books-reading
In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany, solitary and content, as if, in fact, cloistered.
Jane SmileyTags: books-reading
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C.S. LewisTags: books-reading
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Mark TwainTags: books-reading
Beware the man of a single book.
Thomas AquinasTags: books-reading ignorance illiteracy limitation
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
Henry David ThoreauTags: education knowledge wealth books-reading enlightenment treasures heritage
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...
Michel HouellebecqTags: life reading books happiness books-reading reading-books
There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.
Wayne C. BoothTags: books-reading
Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.
Meredith WoodTags: imagination books books-reading
I generally read every night before I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage.
Debbie MacomberTags: books-reading marriage-husbands
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