“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Yet writing a poem about something painful, she has discovered, can be her way of digesting it. 'One of the things I’ve learned is, if we try and put sadness off, it just waits. And in my experience, running away from sadness doesn’t do anybody any good.'”— Frieda Hughes, theguardian.com
“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“A book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.”— George Lichtenberg, amazon.com