People have no idea...

".... People have no idea how beautiful books are.

How they taste on your fingers. 

How bright everything is when you light it with words." 

-  Rachel Kadish

To read is to fly...

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries." - A C Grayling

Books are the perfect entertainment...

" Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life." -  Stephen King

The man who does not...

" The man who does not read good books

 has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

 -  Mark Twain

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I often hear people say...

"I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers." - Terry Goodkind

Books are...

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;

they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors,

and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot

Second hand books are wild books...

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack"

- Virginia Woolf

Books are delightful society...

"Books are delightful society.

If you go into a room and find it full of books

- even without taking them from the shelves

they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome."

-William Ewart Gladstone