Power Of Books Quotes

“A book can give you an experience of someone’s life in a few hours, and this is far more profitable than any sale that’s going on.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, In The Name Of Blasphemy

“...people burn books, and that they ban books is, in a way, a good sign. It's a good sign because it means books have power. When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them...”
― Marcus Sedgwick, The Monsters We Deserve

“Words have oppressed, and liberated countless. It is a weapon that can be used to inspire and save lives, or discourage and forsake them.”
― H.S. Crow

“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life failed me.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get.”
― Carla H. Krueger

“There's a scared lion in this book. He learns to be brave. Maybe you can, too," Grandma Thereza said, stroking my head as I scanned the illustrations on the pages, searching for a quick answer that wouldn't involve me reading the entire book.

Grandma was always like that. She always had the right book for the right occasion. And I, with nothing else to do that afternoon, sat in an armchair and started reading. I remember reading until my head hurt, and at the end of her workday, I hadn't finished yet. I took the book home, where I read it to the end.”
― Vitor Martins, Here the Whole Time

“I liked stories. I liked the way they had the power to make sense of life.”
― Candi Sary, Black Crow White Lie

“I am content, for within this one book I have discovered a universe far grander than the one I imagined as a child.”
― Barbara Lynn-Vannoy

“She had learned bravery from men in books, and it never occurred to her that women could not also be brave”
― Regina L. Garza Mitchell, Shadow of the Vulture

“A great book can feed your soul in a world where the overload of misinformation can break you”
― N.g

“You like to read?" Reading was one of David's favorite things to do. So much more enjoyable than talking or exchanging pleasantries with strangers.
"Yes, do you?" she asked, a hopeful look on her face.
"Indeed, I do....I regretted that I could only fit one book in my rucksack on the Continent."
.."Oh, do tell me, what was it?"
"In English you would call it The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of Lamancha, but I had the Spanish version."
"..Don Quixote. A comedy is it not?'
..."Marianne gave it to me. She said I would need something silly to cheer me on the battlefield. But I read it so many times, I must say my opinion of the book changed, more than once."
"How so?", she asked...
"At first I thought it was a comedy, then I came to regard it as a tragic novel, because Quixote was considered mad and treated like a lunatic. But in the end I found it life-changing."
.."How so?"
"The book save my life, in more ways than one. Reading it kept me sane all those long, sleepless nights in the cold...."
"How else did it save your life?" Lady Annabelle asked...
.."It quite literally saved me from death. When the French captured me and a small group of my men, they began executing the officers. Only when they got to me, they rifled through my rucksack and when they saw the book, they realized I could speak Spanish. That was of use to them so they kept me alive as an interpreter.”
― Valerie Bowman, Earl Lessons

“Abernathy turned on him as if he’d said something inciting. ‘Reading it won’t change a damn thing.’

‘It won’t,’ he agreed. ‘But you’ll be going where he went, looking where he looked, smiling when he smiled. You’ll be in all the same places.’

She fell silent after that, and Pilgrim did, too. The book remained untouched on the floor.”
― G. X. Todd