#boo

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #boo




I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.


Franz Kafka


#kindness

I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?



Jarod Kintz


#books #cats #homonyms #meow #translate

Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.


Scott Westerfeld


#assignment #avatar #book #burst #expression

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.


Dejan Stojanovic


#books #brightness #dejan-stojanovic #glow #literature

Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.


Stendhal


#novels #satire #social-criticism #satire

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.


Anne Fadiman


#bookshelves #parents #shelves #aspiration

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland


Arthur Conan Doyle


#reading #noble

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.


Gail Carriger


#books #lovers

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.


Patricia A. McKillip


#book-lovers #books #readers #reading #lovers

We live for books.


Umberto Eco


#book-lovers #books #reading #lovers