— Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Books became my life, or maybe I should say books became the way I escaped from my life.

— Haruki Murakami

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Books have to be heavy because the 

whole world’s inside them.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space…”

— Michael Faudet

“She was a curious girl who loved the smell of old books, chasing butterflies and touching herself under the covers.”

You want weapons?

— Jane Yolen

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”

is not always the best the one we like the most

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” - Stephen King

2013 Book to Movie

i lost my best friend that day....

there is so much I want to share but I can't

"I suppose I was feeling a bit anxious, and there was something about the hospital gown I was wearing that made me feel weirdly uncomfortable, but I wasn't pacing around the room or chewing my fingernails or anything. I was just standing at the window, gazing out at the hospital grounds, trying to convince myself that everything was going to be OK"

~Being, 2007

this is the best gift anyone has ever given me.

He cups my face in his hand, staring at me like I created the moon and the stars. His hands drift down to my waist and he pushes the shirt I’m wearing up, revealing my bare stomach. He presses his palm right over my belly button and instantly smiles. He rubs the area softly with a kind of awe and wonderment. “I love you,” he says and looks back up at me. “And this is the best gift anyone has ever given me.”

One of my favourite novel The Hunger Games. Thank you Suzanne Collins

~ Charles W Eliot 1834

Books are the quietest

 and most constant of friends; 

they are the most accessible

 and wisest of counsellors, 

and the most patient of teachers

. 

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.”

drink, read, be

— Sherman Alexie

“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them.”

— Ray Bradbury

Without libraries what have we? 

We have no past 

and no future.

-- Mark Twain

"Be careful about reading health books. 

You may die of a misprint."

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

it's this obvious

when you admit to yourself that you really love him and but really don't know what to do...