Words worth keeping

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

A good book is an event in my life.

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.