Love For Books Quotes

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Libraries are lungs, [...] books the fresh air breathed in to keep the heart beating, to keep the brain imagining, to keep hope alive.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“I can not imagine a world without books.
My world will not be complete with the love for books.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“every word and its sound shall generate the same form in the mind of both the reader and its author”
― R.K. Shailey, Bahá'u'lláh And The Mission of "God Manifestation"

“From the third case, she took yet more books, but these were the traveling books that she had brought for her new ward: they were at once sterner and more reassuring that the others. She cared for for these, too- they were books after all, and she would sooner have her own spine broken than manhandle a book - but not with the same devotion, and they were placed in a neat pile on the floor.”
― Wesley Stace, Misfortune

“Please, take it. I love to read. I hate to argue.”
― E.Y. Laster, Of Captivity & Kings

“Keep reading. It's one
of the most marvellous
adventures that anyone
can have.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Behind her, Rijes let out a small gasp as she beheld the bookshelves--- it was the sound of a woman who didn't expect to find happiness but discovered it anyway. Terlu knew that sound well. "This is perfect," Rijes proclaimed.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Enchanted Greenhouse