book quotes

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.
One does not love breathing." — Harper Lee

"To chose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation." — Yann Martel


"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." — Jane Austen

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." — Jane Austen

"Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
" — Arnold Lobel