Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
Lemony Snicket
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
James Baldwin
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
Margaret Atwood
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
Nora Ephron
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
Anne Herbert
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
René Descartes
It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
John Waters
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
Emilie Buchwald
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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