Crystal > Crystal's Quotes

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“Strive for wisdom! Or at least a decrease in idiocy.”
― Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon

“Never trust a writer who doesn’t have too many books to read. Or a reader, for that matter,” said Zelia.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“It had filled my time - given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less ... alone.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“even temples can be rebuilt, but books cannot be rewritten”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing and Iron Flame

“But there’s something . . . grounding . . . when you hold a book in your hands”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“I don't know if I can explain it, but watching you read what I give you, putting a book in your hands and seeing what happens to you once you put it back down... I can't make you understand how that gives me something I didn't know I had to have.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“A library is a temple of sorts.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Immortality has turned us all into cartoons.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Over a million? A million books?” Her heart leapt and danced, and she cracked a smile. “I’d die before I even got through half of that!”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“...her dearest friends are characters in books.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire