“And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it - perhaps your favourite sentence - to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.” John Irving ((I LOVE this idea))
There is space on everyone’s bookshelves for books you have outgrown but can’t give away. They hold your youth between their pages, like flowers pressed on a half-forgotten summer’s day.
This is a poster of the quote “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe” by author Madeleine L'Engle. (L'Engle wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time.) loved that book!
"We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind." - Anna Quindlen FROM: and the forest dreams eternally.
Yep "The moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn't just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
