Bookish Quotes

“There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with him or told him to sit still. When his tutors had thrown up their hands in frustration, it was the library that had taught Nikolai military history, strategy, chemistry, astronomy. Each spine had been an open door away whispering, Come in, come in. Here is the land you’ve never seen before. Here is a place to hide when you’re frightened, to play when you’re bored, to rest when the world seems unkind.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Oh good because books will keep her safe." Mira shoots Brennan an icy look.
"The right ones will.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, caught at last in the rising flood of warm air, carrying the sand from the south. The Alps are folded above in the flickering light. And on the desk in the room beneath lies the writing which insists that the only escape is through the absolute destruction of everything you have ever known, loved, cared for, believed in, even the shell of yourself must be discarded with contempt; for freedom costs no less than everything, including your generosity, self-respect, integrity, tenderness - is that really what i wanted to say? It's what I have said. Worse still, I have pointed out the sheer creative joy of this ferocious destructiveness and the liberating wonder of violence. And these are dangerous messages for which I am no longer responsible.”
― Patricia Duncker

“She was lonely, and she wanted someone to love. She made me out of love, and the empire destroyed her for it.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.”
― Irvine Welsh, Skagboys

“Rereading a favorite book was like coming home after a long time away.”
― Analeigh Sbrana, Lore of the Wilds

“He was close enough that I caught a note of his cologne--- cedar and black tea and, faintly, the subtle scent of a well-loved paperback. Familiar and yearning. It was mystifying.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“Aku benci buku kertas! Aku benci kejantanan budaya membaca yang menuntut seseorang memenuhi lima syarat kesehatan: mata yang bisa melihat, tangan yang dapat memegang, jari yang mahir membalik halaman, badan yang sanggup mempertahankan posisi membaca, dan kaki yang mampu melangkah bebas ke toko buku.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“If this turns out to be all we have, I'll cherish it for the rest of my life. Maybe we're like the butterfly when it emerges from its cocoon,” she said, returning to the cocoon analogy she had used before. “The butterfly emerges, amazingly beautiful, but only lives for a short time. Maybe that's us, and we're the butterfly, beautiful for a short time but not meant to last,” she said as tears spilled from her eyes once again.
That's How You Know by Julie Simmons (Chapter 14)”
― Julie Simmons, That's How You Know

“No longer a mere facade--a rug or a stall--the bookstore deepened so that it could hold and display the rapidly increasing stock of books and provide backroom space for scribes and their supplies.”
― Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

“Go along on the journey, whatever it may be, and let the pages take you to a place you’ve never imagined, yet I hope you’ll find in them a familiar feeling.”
― Lee Soul

“No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing, even if one of them complains later on that they were used.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“love conquers all. And it isn't true. Sometimes love carries us into the abyss, taking with us—to make matters worse-the people we love.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small, and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Everything is at once so simple and so complicated! It's simple because all it takes is a change of attitude:
I'm not going to look for happiness anymore.
From now on, I'm independent; I see life through my eyes and not through other peo-ple's. I'm going in search of the adventure of being alive.
And it's complicated: Why am I not looking for happiness when everyone has taught me that happiness is the only goal worth pursuing? Why am I going to risk taking a path that no one else is taking?
After all, what is happiness?
Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety,”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Everything is at once so simple and so complicated! It's simple because all it takes is a change of attitude:

I'm not going to look for happiness anymore.
From now on, I'm independent; I see life through my eyes and not through other peo-ple's. I'm going in search of the adventure of being alive.
And it's complicated: Why am I not looking for happiness when everyone has taught me that happiness is the only goal worth pursuing? Why am I going to risk taking a path that no one else is taking?

After all, what is happiness?
Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety,”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Money brings happiness. Fine. In that case, everyone who earns enough to have a high standard of living would be able to stop working. But then they're more troubled than ever, as if they were afraid of losing everything. Money attracts money, that's true. Poverty might bring unhappiness, but money won't necessarily bring happiness.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“We're surrounded by Universal Desire.
It's not happiness, it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“everyone infects everyone else.
Groups can also destroy us,”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“When I die, burry mme standing because I spent all my life knees!!”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“- Are you happy ?

- Yes!

- but don't you want MORE ?!”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Who I am NOT ?”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“A book doesn't have to be pretty for you to read it.”
― Ashley Poston, The Cartel

“I often went to bed early, around nine thirty, but usually I read for at least an hour, sometimes more. A lot more. If a book could draw me in, if the next chapter begged to be read, sleep was irrelevant.”
― Kylie Key, The Bookworm

“Well, sometimes you just couldn’t abandon a story, not when you absolutely needed to know if the ancient prophecy was going to be fulfilled! Princes, dragons, wizards, villains, rebel princesses—I loved getting lost in different worlds, the wonderful universes that were created in the pages of a book by someone else, but brought into existence by you. Yes, books were magical, they were my salvation, my friends.”
― Kylie Key, The Bookworm

“...I'm really rather bookish. I'd much rather spend my day in a library than gadding about in Hyde Park.”
― Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

“¿Cuál es el número de teléfono de Turkish Airlines México para atención al cliente?”
― Nam20