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Quotes tagged ‘Book Lovers’
As an avid consumer of books and especially fiction, over the years I’ve developed a special shelf of particularly beautiful and inspiring works by women of color that help me not only walk around in another woman’s experiences, but also situate my own culturally and ethnically fluid self within a c…
every hood deserves a book store. every. single. one.
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself. I like only that which serves my purpose.
And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
Literature grants us few of the consolations and none of the vatic promises of religion, but is our religion nonetheless.
That, by way of a book, we have the ability to transcend what is immediate, what is merely personal, and to enter a consciousness not known to us, in some cases distinctly alien.
Consider the phenomenon of reading, that most mysterious of acts. It is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin; another’s voice; another’s soul.
There are pleasures in reading so startling, so intense, they shade into pain. The realization that one’s life has been irrevocably altered by . . . can it be mere words? Print on a page? The most life-rending discoveries involve what has in fact never been thought, never given form, until another’s…
I have always come to life after coming to books.