Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.
Jasper FfordePhysical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system, are in an instant utterly changed, and forever. The explorer, the scientific observer, the literary reader, experience the Sublime: a moment of revelation into the idea of the unbounded, the infinite.
Richard HolmesTags: science inspirational reading vision observation ineffable sublime
I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.
Colleen HooverTags: reading books reading-books
You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.
“Yes, I suppose I do,” she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. “You think that's why I love reading novels so much?
I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: life reading books happiness food
En resolución, él se enfrascó tanto en su lectura, que se le pasaban las noches leyendo de claro en claro, y los días de turbio en turbio, y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Llenósele la fantasía de todo aquello que leía en los libros, así de encantamientos, como de pendencias, batallas, desafíos, heridas, requiebros, amores, tormentas y disparates imposibles, y asentósele de tal modo en la imaginación que era verdad toda aquella máquina de aquellas soñadas invenciones que leía, que para él no había otra historia más cierta en el mundo.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTags: reading books leggere libri lettura
Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.
David MitchellTags: reading books love book spanish español amor libros libro leer lectura
So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.
Victor HugoBooks are cold but sure friends.
Victor HugoI am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.
Jo WaltonTags: reading books tolkien lord-of-the-rings middle-earth the-lord-of-the-rings
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