"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

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

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
"
— Henry Ward Beecher

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
"
— Jorge Luis Borges

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen,
is that you can take it to bed with you.
"
— Daniel J. Boorstin

"There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. "
— Mary Ellen Chase

"When I get a little money, I buy books;
and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
"
— Desiderius Erasmus

"What a school thinks about its library is a measure
of what it feels about education.
"
— Harold Howe

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.
One does not love breathing.
"
— Harper Lee

"Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
"
— Groucho Marx

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be
the kind of people who think decorating
consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
— Anna Quindlen

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves."
— Anonymous (Holy Bible: The King James Bible)

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
— Paul Sweeney

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
— Henry James

"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)