We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha (via bookmania)
The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time.
— Lauren Barnholdt, The Thing About the Truth (via bookmania)
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.
— Carol Shields, The Republic of Love (via bookmania)
I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you’ve been doing. It’s a hundred years since we’ve met―it may be another hundred before we meet again.
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (via bookmania)
I can listen no longer in silence. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. I have loved none but you.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion (via bookmania)
I like books that aren’t just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
— Emma Watson, Time Magazine (November 2010)
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