Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."
[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)
― William Hazlitt
“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
“I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.”
“I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.”
“You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.”
― Joseph Delaney, Night of the Soul Stealer
“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”
“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.”
“It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
“No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”
― Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton