Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.
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Related Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - B... ITALO CALVINO Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff i... KATHRYN ERSKINE Some people are like rocks, they ground you but sometimes put you in a hard place. Others are like t... NI D BREEN Few coffee shops have books, fewer have good books, and even less will have one book that can change... ROBIN SACREDFIRE Through books we can time travel, play make-believe and even create our own intangible art using the... THE MODERN BOWERBIRD: TALES OF A BOOKSHELF I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood. STEVE SCHIRRIPA So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I w... MARC ACITO There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor... STEPHEN KING Sometimes your music sounds like there's too much inside of you. Maybe even you couldn't get it all ... AVA DELLAIRA We also have our own library, because sometimes seniors forget about taking books back and they have... CAROLYN COATES Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotio... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. E... M. J. ROSE There are also books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the... STEPHEN KING Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, ... JIM BUTCHER Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... JOHN GREEN Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need... KAREN WITEMEYER So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language,... ARAVIND ADIGA In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo... ITALO CALVINO There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new... ANNA QUINDLEN I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey ... ELIZABETH JANEWAY Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books. AMAN JASSAL Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, whic... JACK HANDY People think that they are untouchable, but you will probably find that there lives are built around... GARY F EVANS... Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your t... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- r... MERVYN GRIFFITH-JONES We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be ... SUE TOWNSEND Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you. Maybe even you couldn’t get ... AVA DELLAIRA Above all, believe in true love and know that men are like shoes. A couple is like a left and a righ... CAMILLA MORTON In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, M... DANIELLE DE NIESE When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your... JENNA MCCARTHY I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ... RAY BRADBURY In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo... ITALO CALVINO If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you ... JOE QUEENAN no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ... DALLY SALAD I don't care how many books you've read, Britney, or what you think you know, but you know nothing, ... CINDY MARGOLIS I had to read it for home school. It is sort of a mystery, and it was so detailed. I like books like... CAROLINE LELAND Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary ... CARMEN AGRA DEEDY I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM In high school, though, if you call someone out on their shit you get bullied. It’s really a horri... SAGE STEADMAN The professor taught with the confidence that books change you. They mess up your insides. They make... HANNAH BRENCHER Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role... LANA DEL REY When you buy a book, you have it forever. With these electronic books, you often are prevented from ... GREGORY NEWBY It surprises us when the money is unclaimed. You never can tell just why. Someone might have been he... COURTNEY HILL Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you'... MARKUS ZUSAK “Sometimes I try reading books upside-down because I think, thats what it would be like if I could... LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... ROBERT HARRIS Sometimes the strongest thing you will ever do will be to let go of someone. It will be painful, you... LEE GOFF Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside t... WENDY WASSERSTEIN Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read somethi... HELEN HUMPHREYS There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely... LYNN COADY We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagi... ALBERTO MANGUEL (in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those ... RAY BRADBURY Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on sufferi... SHANNON L. ALDER Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w... PATRICIA BRIGGS It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences. JOHN PIPER My favorite book, by a wide margin, was An Imperial Affliction, but I didn’t like to tell peo... JOHN GREEN Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep. KAMILA SHAMSIE Charlie, don’t you get it? I can’t feel that. It’s sweet and everything, but it’s like you�... STEPHEN CHBOSKY If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have r... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN you feel what else is there to do in life apart from living? And even that is out of your control; i... OSHO With a hologram, like when your teacher is one of them, if you aren’t looking right at them, they ... M.T. ANDERSON Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries. SARAH DESSEN The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows lik... RICHARD BRAUTIGAN You read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for t... SHERMAN ALEXIE Always be prepared one day the electricity will stop if your phone isn't charged well and you don't ... DEYTH BANGER I usually read four or five books from my reading log but sometimes I read other books just for info... MACKAY RASMUSSEN When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like... CAROL CHANNING Everyone always talks about the magic of books being able to take you to other places, to let you se... BRANDON SANDERSON Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do ev... JENNIFER TILLY Sometimes you have to let others tell their story about you...even if most of it is fabricated. Your... SANJOY DASGUPTA JENDAYI Sometimes you have to let others tell their story about you...even if most of it is fabricated. Your... SANJO JENDAYI I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more will... CAROLINE LEAVITT If your best friends do not read books, they read you. ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you had a bookstore and that's where you bought books, that's where everybody came. But when yo... MAY WALDROUP i want to be the best i can be but when i cant i'll try my best to achieve my goal my goals in life ... DALLY SALAD Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who ... RANDY PAUSCH Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the f... JANDY NELSON We've been here so many times, but sometimes that streak starts to play on you. It sometimes can be ... JODI MANORE But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need... RON RASH Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read.... GABRIELLE ZEVIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN …Just walking one short path could make you feel hopeful, frustrated, bored, excited, or even noth... SCARLETT THOMAS The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while ... THOMAS MANN Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are... ELIZABETH GILBERT and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No... CHARLES DICKENS They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived t... KHALED HOSSEINI People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL Sometimes I think I spent forever waiting for you,' he says. 'My whole life, I've never had someone ... AMANDA GRACE Sometimes you have to take a stand. Don't expect to win any popularity contests for it. After lettin... SHELLY KAY WALDE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD His goal (Bezos's)was not just to make browsing for books easy, but an enjoyable experience. “Peop... RICHARD L. BRANDT Every event in life — the rejections, the relationships, all the embarrassing things you do will l... MIKE ZACCHIO Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want ... JACKIE COLLINS To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. You are walking around with your head on fi... MATT HAIG Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old book... AIDAN CHAMBERS When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other t... SALMAN RUSHDIE If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you? TAPAN GHOSH They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exact... MAILE MELOY
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achieve immortality through not dyin... JOSEPH ADDISON The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
But th... JOSEPH ADDISON Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. JOSEPH ADDISON A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. JOSEPH ADDISON The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na... JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius,--
We'll deserve it. JOSEPH ADDISON It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts. ADDISON WALKER Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man! JOSEPH ADDISON Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. JOSEPH ADDISON Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. JOSEPH ADDISON If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries
aloud
Through all her works) he ... JOSEPH ADDISON My voice is still for war. JOSEPH ADDISON Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul,
Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,
Bright... JOSEPH ADDISON Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both. JOSEPH ADDISON The plan is when I go to college I plan on taking four years off. School is definitely my priority n... ADDISON PHILLIPS I definitely want to do this for the rest of my life, whether I do it professionally or just for fun... ADDISON PHILLIPS It's definitely been a great learning experience. This is about as hard as some of the courses are g... ADDISON PHILLIPS It's been fun. When I do well it's so rewarding because I'm in here with all the professionals and I... ADDISON PHILLIPS Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit. ADDISON MIZNER Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. ADDISON MIZNER Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it ADDISON MIZNER Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit ADDISON MIZNER Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate ADDISON MIZNER The market is reacting to worries over supplies during the coming driving season. ADDISON ARMSTRONG We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on pr... ADDISON ARMSTRONG That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put do... ADDISON ARMSTRONG That was a shocking gasoline build. ADDISON ARMSTRONG Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments... ADDISON ARMSTRONG I think we're still in a very headline-driven market and the geopolitical concerns are going to cont... ADDISON ARMSTRONG Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath... JOSEPH ADDISON Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and
essentially raises one man above anothe... JOSEPH ADDISON There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. JOSEPH ADDISON Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore
always represented as blind. JOSEPH ADDISON The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somethi... JOSEPH ADDISON Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somet... JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has s... JOSEPH ADDISON Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. JOSEPH ADDISON If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ... JOSEPH ADDISON She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is... ADDISON MOORE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. JOSEPH ADDISON Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. ADDISON MIZNER The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. ADDISON MIZNER Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. JOSEPH ADDISON Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss... JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. JOSEPH ADDISON The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,... JOSEPH ADDISON Poets are born, not paid. ADDISON MIZNER A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and sereni... JOSEPH ADDISON Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment... JOSEPH ADDISON A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants... JOSEPH ADDISON To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. JOSEPH ADDISON Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath... JOSEPH ADDISON Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most se... JOSEPH ADDISON Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of... JOSEPH ADDISON Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of ma... JOSEPH ADDISON A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own s... JOSEPH ADDISON To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusemen... JOSEPH ADDISON The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will rende... JOSEPH ADDISON Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. JOSEPH ADDISON What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. JOSEPH ADDISON Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are oft... JOSEPH ADDISON Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. JOSEPH ADDISON Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more livel... JOSEPH ADDISON A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recen... JOSEPH ADDISON As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. JOSEPH ADDISON