Words worth keeping

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?