Quotes from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere

“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

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― Lewis Carroll, quote from Through the Looking Glass

“It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?”
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“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., quote from Strength to Love

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― quote from Pope Francis: Untying the Knots

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