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“Ask anyone with a big book collection, and they'll tell you moving them was the hardest part of the move. Take down a bookshelf and there's often no less than four, possibly up to eight, good Lord if it's over ten, boxes of dense material. This is the single greatest argument for welcoming ebooks. Abandoning print and having your Kindle on display instead doesn't sound like such a bad idea while carrying book box number seven to the car.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your shelf. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new place or reinforced what they were doing.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“Starbucks and their ilk are for meeting with people you don't care to meet with and finishing term papers.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“All fathers who don't read like Guy Fieri.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“What Your Child Will Grow Up to Be If You Read Them…”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“Considering yourself a serious reader doesn’t mean you can’t read light books. Loving to read means you sometimes like to turn your head off.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“At these moments I need my reading easy and quick; I need to turn the pages without knowing it. I don’t have the bandwidth to wonder about the underlying meaning of the exact word chosen to phrase how one turned around or analyze just why an object was described in a certain”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“Considering yourself a serious reader doesn’t mean you can’t read light books. Loving to read means you sometimes like to turn your head”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“If you tell an eight-year-old she has a talent for something, she'll never give it a rest.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“I turned. Tall, Dark, and Sinister was rapidly approaching.”
― MaryJanice Davidson, quote from Undead and Unwed
“Omri refused to get involved in an argument. He was somehow scared that if he talked about the Indian, something bad would happen. In fact, as the day went on and he longed more and more to get home, he began to feel certain that the whole incredible happening—well, not that it hadn’t happened, but that something would go wrong. All his thoughts, all his dreams were centered on the miraculous, endless possibilities opened up by a real, live, miniature Indian of his very own. It would be too terrible if the whole thing turned out to be some sort of mistake.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, quote from The Indian in the Cupboard
“Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know."
"I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, quote from Elsewhere
“Today, each of you will make a decision,” Caine said. “To go with Sam, or to stay here. I won’t try to stop anyone, and I won’t hold it against anyone.” He placed his hand over his heart. “For those who choose to stay, let me be very clear: I will be in charge. Not as a mayor, but as a king. My word will be law. My decisions will be final.”
That caused some murmuring, most of it unhappy.
“But I’ll also do everything I can to leave each of you alone. Quinn, if he chooses to stay, can still fish. Albert, if he chooses to stay, will still run his business. Freaks and normals will be treated equally.”
He seemed about to add something else but caught himself after a sidelong look at Toto.
The silence lengthened and Sam knew it was time for him to speak. In the past he’d always had Astrid at his side for things like this. He was not much of a speaker. And in any case, he didn’t have much to say.
“Anyone who goes with me has a vote in how we do stuff. I guess I’ll be more or less in charge, but we’ll probably choose some other people, create a council like . . . Well, hopefully better than we had before. And, um . . .” He was tempted to laugh at his own pitiful performance. “Look, people, if you want someone, some . . . king, good grief, to tell you what to do, stay here. If you want to make more of your own decisions, well, come with me.”
He hadn’t said enough to even cause Toto to comment.
“You know which side I’m on, people,” Brianna yelled. “Sam’s been carrying the load since day one.”
“It was Caine that saved us,” a voice cried out. “Where was Sam?”
The crowd seemed undecided. Caine was beaming confidence, but Sam noticed that his jaw clenched, his smile was forced, and he was worried.”
― Michael Grant, quote from Plague
“That's one form of magic, of course."
"What, just knowing things?"
"Knowing things that other people don't know.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Equal Rites
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