Quotes of: Book Keyword

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.

Glory Be

most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.

The God Delusion

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

Guards! Guards!

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Golem in the Gears

Certain voices heard are heard not because they are phonetic... But, from one soul they head, to another, in the form of magic. (Poem: When, When a not, Book: Ginger and Honey)

Ginger and Honey

Echo looked around at her sea of tomes, and a single word came to mind: tsundoku. It was the Japanese word for letting books pile up without reading them all.

The Girl at Midnight

I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then.

The Hours Before

He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox. Chinese Sayings

Helen Brown's West Coast Cook Book

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

The Hour I First Believed

Mind control is built in lies and manipulation of attachment needs. Valerie Sinason, from the Forward of the book

Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

Bound to Accept

I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger

The Bookshop Book

Be in the World, Not of the World—Kind of like Lucky Charms cereal: there are lots of pretty marshmallows in with the cereal, but they’re not the same. So live with the cereal, but remember: you’re a pretty marshmallow.

Becca by the Book

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

Briar's Book

Be clear and smiling for those who are glad to see you. Someone who is not, let his way darken like a pen leaving a faltering ink trail.

The Big Red Book

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

The Blank Book

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

The B-Side Diaries

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Book of a Thousand Days

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play.

The Bell Jar