Top 100 Book Book Lovers Quotes
#1. If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.
Aman Jassal
#2. It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I would find, for the next few years, my lovers. They were men, not boys. They were self-possessed and sardonic, with a ferocious streak in them, reserves of gloom.
Alice Munro
#4. Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.
Eudora Welty
#5. A heart in love is a thriller book of many stories
Munia Khan
#9. It's the only thing I begrudge the rich," I said, as I followed him back down the damp-smelling staircase to the ground floor.
"What's that?"
"Their ability to buy books that the rest of us can never hope to own.
Susanna Kearsley
#10. Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
Anne Rice
#11. She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.'
He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?'
'Every single time.
Elizabeth Hunter
#13. Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?
Helene Hanff
#14. A book is like a trip to a world of imagination and creativity, and those who don't read will for ever stay in the same place.
Dulce Rodrigues
#15. I had never had a big opinion for myself. I had always thought I'd be a fuck up, that I'd be disappointed like always by life and people. But at this very moment, I knew it. I wasn't a good man, not well-adjusted. - Nolan
Stephanie Witter
#16. Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
Anne Herbert
#17. When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.
Virginia Woolf
#18. There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
Edith Hamilton
#19. I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
Dorothy Parker
#21. All I could think about was the heat of his soft lips, the way they fitted so wonderfully as I was coaxing him to open them some more, just enough to let my tongue slip in and taste him. I needed a taste, needed to complete this fantasy of mine.
Stephanie Witter
#22. You can't herd the stars. You can only gaze at them, never touch, like love. Yes, you can 'be' in love and 'fall' in love, but you can never 'touch' love. You can only touch things that represent love, like a lover, or a book, or a lover's book, or lovers in a book.
Neil De La Flor
#23. I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.
Helene Hanff
#24. I was not gentle on my books. I read while I ate, I read in the bathtub. At night, I rolled over on top of my books that had fallen between the covers as I dozed.
Georgia Bell
#25. Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting.
Brian K. Vaughan
#26. If a book doesn't inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.
Aman Jassal
#28. I go towards him and put my hands on his face and I kiss him. "What do you feel, Holden?"
He looks into my eyes. "You," he says. "I feel you.
Kady Hunt
#29. To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.
Will Thomas
#30. Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence.
Jan Morris
#31. Only a book is enough to change the course of your life.
Aman Jassal
#32. Marika was a book nerd and had a TBR pile taller than her. She was a sucker for YA
Mirella Muffarotto
#37. How can I survive without a book to read?
David Hill
#38. The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.
Patricia A. McKillip
#39. [I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
Simon Van Booy
#40. He laid his head on Reid's shoulder and shut his eyes, buoyed toward sleep by the affectionate comb of fingers through his hair. He could stay just so, and be content for all his days.
Tamara Allen
#41. It's sort of like books. Yeah, you know how you read certain books and at the last page you're filled with the story and you sort of don't want to leave the characters?
Tracy Ewens
#42. The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect.
Tor Udall
#44. What is it with you and that book?"
Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#45. I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
H.L. Mencken
#46. I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to.
Avijeet Das
#47. I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt
Andy Partridge
#50. I was falling back again and fast, or maybe I'd never stopped feeling something for him. And it was still hopeless, but at least, I could touch him a little bit.
Stephanie Witter
#54. For what is writing besides capturing thoughts that belong to all of us, so that we can recognize ourselves, undestand ourselves, and perhaps, each other. Every thoughtful book about love makes us better lovers, I think. It opens the gates of perception.
Janet Fitch
#56. Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.
Siri Hustvedt
#57. Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.
"There's nothing to say."
He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?
Stephanie Witter
#59. Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.
Drea Damara
#60. Dear girl with the red scarf,
Love was never meant to be conquered. You have to surrender to it.
Trust me, after all, I am Mr. Universe.
Maria La Serra
#62. I want to read every book that's written
hear every song that was sung
I want to gaze at every cloud
and hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.
Sanober Khan
#64. Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
Joe Queenan
#66. We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
Charles Caleb Colton
#67. You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.
Salil Jha
#68. I invited Onyx to be my plus one. Of course she was all in when I added that Grandma A had a massive swimming pool and was within a short driving distance to a two-story bookstore.
K.R. Grace
#69. She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.
E.M. Delafield
#70. Donna Summer... Is a singing sensation who brings joy to all music lovers, a gifted individual and major figure in the entertainment world whose colourful melodies and tales stay eternally in every fan's heart.
Nik A. Ramli
#71. Love is the connection between souls synchronized through heart beats.
Quote from my upcoming book 'Always Be MINE
Neha Daraad
#72. I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
Jackie Collins
#73. Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.
Aman Jassal
#74. I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.
Charles McCarry
#75. A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it.
Julie Wright
#76. A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.
Aman Jassal
#77. The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.
J.K. Rowling
#78. People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
#79. I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn's full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed and her body ... her smoking body bared only for me.
Stephanie Witter
#80. Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.
Marie Sabine Roger
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Anonymous
#82. And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.
Nick Hornby
#84. Quietly, under my breath, I mumbled a name and it wasn't the name of the girl waiting in the other room.
In my mind I pictured Brooklyn's sounds as she came and I jerked in my hand, coming and coming.
Something had to give.
Stephanie Witter
#85. 'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride. The book is about finding their way back to each other, growing as people, and inventing a life they can share.
Linda Lael Miller
#86. I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.
Susan Lendroth
#87. I'd keep your beauty timeless.
like a flower pressed in a book, yes
I wouldn't let it fade
Folded in the chapters of my mind
Richard L. Ratliff
#88. It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book ... from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#89. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#90. Something significant, magical, and
inspiring happens with each word you read in the pages of a book. You explore new lands, meet new people, feel new emotions, and are no longer the same person you were one word prior to reading it.
Martha Sweeney
#91. Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It's a symbol, an offering
and sometimes a test
Sara Nelson
#92. They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?'
'It was books, admitted Miss Minton.
And Maia said, 'Good.
Eva Ibbotson
#94. That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
Anthony Trollope
#95. - I saw the Center of the Universe, she said.
- I'm looking at it right now, he said.
Eva Scoutt
#99. A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ...
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#100. Read a poem at a time, or two, or all, but give them time to sink into your heart. Read them again, read a portion, and stop and ponder. Visualize. Take it slow; let the poem show you what lies in your own heart. Let it fuel the words from within.
Salil Jha
