The best quotes on Books

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

You know, sometimes, whilst I'm writing to you, I feel a strange sensation, completely physical, as if before being able to speak to you I had to see the words abandon me in a long line before getting to you, and deliver themselves to your hands.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

When you hold things against each other, you're not in a two-way relationship anymore, but in a three-way: you, me and the worm that has started gnawing away at our story. In matter's obscurity, worms work with discretion, digging tunnels for years and, apart from some minor itchiness, you don't realize anything. Then one day you lay a cup on the table and the wood breaks, collapsing and in a moment, the sturdy surface you knew becomes a pile of soft sawdust.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

Definition of a classic: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

The meaning of the being of the existent in so far as it reveals itself to consciousness is the phenomenon of being. This meaning has itself a being, based on which it manifests itself.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

"Many miles separate us", said Legolas looking far away and creating some shade over his eyes with the palm of his hand. "I see a darkness in which some figures are moving, two great figures far off on the banks of the river; but what they are I cannot tell. It is not clouds or mists that blur my sight; there is like a shadowy veil, laid about the countryside by some strange force, which is slowly descending the course of the river. It looks like the sunset is sliding down the hillsides under the innumerable trees".

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

And as he watched them walk out of St Patrick's, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

When you'll understand yourself you'll understand the world a lot better.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

Emotions were wild horses: in the end, you couldn't do anything but free them.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

No life can consider itself complete without a dash of madness.