Oona > Oona's Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood