Quotes - Laura Oliva (lauraolivabooks) (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 173

#1

“God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.”
― W.E. Channing

tags: books

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#2

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17573 likes

#3

“You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I have a mother who read to me.”
― Strickland Gillilan

36 likes

#4

“Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”
― Augustine Birrell

tags: book-collecting

39 likes

#5

“Medicine for the soul.”
― Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

tags: libraries-thebes-books

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#6

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47067 likes

#7

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: life

4857 likes

#8

“Life didn't explode in the sunshine and pretty places. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and with a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

tags: inspirational, love, mac

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#9

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

2465 likes

#10

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

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#11

“Wot Wot”
― Brian Jacques, The Long Patrol

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#12

“Have you talked to North?" he said.
"Yes," she said. "I asked him to get us cable."
"I wish you weren't talking to him."
"I'd talk to Satan to get cable," Andie said.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Maybe This Time

21 likes

#13

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

8571 likes

#14

“A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Maybe This Time

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#15

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

1794 likes

#16

“We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.”
― Pearl Cleage

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#17

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

9446 likes

#18

“Words are not the only way we communicate, you and I. They never were.”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

tags: emma, julian, meredith-duran

33 likes

#19

“I know it is a cliché, but reformed rakes do make admirable husbands. Why? First of all, their wild oats are thoroughly sown. The second reason? They know how to please a woman between the sheets.
Think about it. After all, that is what made them rakes in the first place.”
― Emma Wildes, Lessons From a Scarlet Lady

tags: rakes

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#20