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  • #1
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #3
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #5
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #6
    Cornelia Funke
    “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

  • #7
    Clive Barker
    “Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
    Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

  • #8
    James Russell Lowell
    “Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
    James Russell Lowell

  • #9
    John Lubbock
    “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
    John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

  • #10
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #11
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #12
    Holbrook Jackson
    “Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
    Holbrook Jackson

  • #13
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

  • #14
    Umberto Eco
    “I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #15
    Edmund Wilson
    “No two persons ever read the same book.”
    Edmund Wilson

  • #16
    Lloyd Alexander
    “We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #17
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    “The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
    It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
    it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
    It is a moral illumination.”
    Elizabeth Hardwick

  • #18
    Ray Bradbury
    “I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #19
    Scott Corbett
    “I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”
    Scott Corbett

  • #20
    Umberto Eco
    “Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

  • #21
    Helen Keller
    “Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
    Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

  • #22
    Sylvia Plath
    “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.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #23
    Rebecca Wells
    “See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”
    Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere

  • #24
    Ray Bradbury
    “Libraries raised me.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #25
    Sholem Asch
    “I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.”
    Sholem Asch



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