Quotes of: Book Keyword

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

The Library at Night

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

The Little Black Book of Style

Her voice faltered to a stop. Fear and confusion clutched at her throat like some terrible beast, and suddenly she was finding it difficult to breathe.

Lie to me: Deception: Book Two

She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her.

Lie to me: Deception: Book Two

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

The Last Book in the Universe

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

The Last Book in the Universe

There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

Listening Valley

Heaven and earth begin in the unnamed: name’s the mother of the ten thousand things.

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

Smoke and Mirrors

He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating.

Sometimes a Great Notion

I wrote a book on sex. It’s got a hole in it so you can literally fornicate with it. I’ve only sold one copy, but I’ve heard that the buyer shared the book with all his fellow congressmen.


Sleepwalking is restercise

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

Often tales of valiant deeds lighten the heart," said Brandegan. "They give hope, for they remind us that not all forces in the world work wickedness.

Strife Of The Mighty: Book One Of The Chronicles Of Vrandalin

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

The Shadow of the Wind

Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change.

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

Tom Strong, Book 2

Mapmaker mapmaker make me a map one to one scale, without a single gap. Map every rock, every thought, every tree and erase all the territory.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2