Julie Montgomery > Julie's Quotes

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“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. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
― Neil Gaiman

“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley

“Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.”
― Adam Hargreaves, Mr. Lazy's Guide to Fitness

“Pain is weakness leaving the body”
― Tera Lynn Childs, Oh. My. Gods.

“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot."

[Baffled at a Bookcase (London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]”
― Alan Bennett