The Gifts of Reading Quotes

“Reading kept him alive,’ she said, ‘right till the end.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading

“For a year and a half, he was an aristocratic supertramp,”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading

“Not all books received as gifts are transformative, of course. Sometimes the only thing a book gives its reader is a paper cut.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading

“Leave thy home, O youth, and seek out alien shores … Yield not to misfortune: the far-off Danube shall know thee, the cold North-wind and the untroubled kingdom of Canopus and the men who gaze on the new birth of Phoebus or upon his setting”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading