Quotes about reading

Charing Cross Road was once the bookselling heart of London and disreputable enough to avoid the multinational chains in their unceasing quest to turn every street of every city into a clone of every other.

“What do you see here?”

“Books?”

“Indeed, books. They are the ocean in which magic swims.”

At that age, Alice had grasped the idea that some things in books were real, and others were not.

Reading sheds light on our dark path ahead. By traveling into the past, I enhance my grasp of the present.

Do you remember the moment you first realize you were mortal? That no matter what happened, you would never live long enough to read every book you wanted to read? That you’d die having accomplished only a fraction of your goals?

If books are indeed magic (and does anyone really believe otherwise?), then they are a collaborative magic between author and reader.

'We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.'

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

In her spare time, she looked to books or the stars for company.

paintings

and books conceal more than they ever tell.

Blanca argued that her reading should be monitored because there were certain things that were inappropriate for her age, but her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it. (p311)

The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.