“I cannot live without books.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
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“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
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The Night Faerie 