The Book Witch Quotes

“All stories are love stories if you love stories.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“The fictional characters we love stamp their names on our hearts. They show us how to fight our battles, how to change, how to make it to page three hundred a different person than we were on page one.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“If you were a book, I would read every page of you in one sitting and then when it was over, I’d start back at page one and read you again. If our life together was a story, I’d want it to be a million pages long, a billion pages. I hope there are scenes in the book of our love that burn holes in the paper. I hope the happy chapters are the longest and the saddest chapters are barely a page. And I hope and pray that however our story ends, it ends with us together and the last word of the story of our life is ‘forever.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“If you're afraid to read a book it's probably because you know it has something to say to you that you don't want to hear.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“those who loved books and those who wanted to ban them have one single thing in common—we all believe reading a book can change you. It’s only that the book banners consider this a bug, and Maxine—and likely everyone in this room—sees it as a feature.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Time passes like the pages of a favorite story, drawing ever nearer the end whether we like it or not.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Read me and I’ll show you what passion looks like on paper… Read me and breathe the rusted red air of Mars… Read me and I’ll reveal to you what really happened in that lonely cabin in the dark, dark woods… Read me, for you think you’re too old for unicorns and fairies, but in my pages, you’ll learn you are a mere baby in the eyes of these ancient beings, and don’t you want to feel like a child again? Read me and remember… Read me and forget… Read me and hate… Read me and fall in love… Read me and learn the secrets you’ve been keeping from yourself…”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“You know what they say—love laughs at locksmiths.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“It had happened to me too. It happens to most of us if we’re lucky enough. The fictional characters we love stamp their names on our hearts. They show us how to fight our battles, how to change, how to make it to page three hundred a different person than we were on page one.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Books that don’t have a home yet are always trying to seduce you,” I explained. “That’s why almost no one can go into a bookstore without buying something.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“The story of my life was a story... it is a mystery, one we're all trying to solve.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Immortality is overrated.” Duke brought his hand to my neck, stroking it. “I’d far rather be able to grow old.” “Really? Why?” “If I can’t grow old, I can’t grow old with you.” Ever have anyone say something so violently”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“All stories are love stories when you love stories.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“I gave Mr. Burton the traditional salute—palms together and then opening them as if my hands were a book or butterfly wings.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Have you met authors, Duke? They aren’t criminal masterminds. Authors are anemic agoraphobes who sit in dark rooms and hallucinate. They’re more like moths than people.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“That’s why I love you, Rainy March. Because when I’m with you, I’m real.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“In a bookstore at night—or a library or a box of books left in the donation bin outside of your local Goodwill—you can feel the stories working their soft magic, singing a siren’s song to draw readers to their pages.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Scientists have proven that reading fiction makes people more empathic, improves their disposition and emotional intelligence. People, in other words, need stories.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Time passes like the pages of a favorite story”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“You can love fictional characters. At times it's almost easier to love them than to love real people.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“If you’re afraid to read a book, it’s probably because you know it has something to say to you that you don’t want to hear.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“If there were a museum for lost and forgotten sounds, the dial tone of a landline phone would surely be a future exhibit.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Scientists have proven that reading fiction makes people more empathic, improves their disposition and emotional intelligence. People, in other words, need stories. But stories also need people. An unread book is a caged animal, trapped between paper walls. They want reading, need it. To open a book is to set a story free.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“All stories are love stories if you love stories. And I do love stories.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“She said many times that those who loved books and those who wanted to ban them have one single thing in common—we all believe reading a book can change you.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“A person who breaks one rule is a rule breaker. A person who breaks all the rules is a rebel. Come be a rebel with me.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“I'm starting to think you don't actually read the books you claim to love or hate. No, you wave them like flags in a war no one's fighting but you.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“If there were a museum for lost and forgotten sounds, the dial tone of a landline phone would surely be a future exhibit. I listened to that sound for a full ten seconds before finally hanging up.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Very sorry, Miss March, but a duke outranks a mere commoner.” “Are you calling me a commoner?” “I am not calling you a commoner, Miss March. You simply are a commoner.” “Good help is so hard to find!”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Scientists have proven that reading fiction makes people more empathic”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch