Book Quotes - Page 12

Sex is Not Love

He has the etiquette of a frog

No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.

I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

The world is a better place when you smile.

There are some people in this world who can emotionally disconnect like a light switch. It’s like a mental defense mechanism.

But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture of the characters and the scenes in your mind. You don't have that with a movie. It's all either up there on the screen laid out for you, or it isn't there at all.

It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.

Ha! spring arrived on her sweet scented palanquin,carried by the spirited Zephyrus and his coir with their murmuring music undulated in its own softness and fondled the leaves to astir.

Awesome . . .” Jared spoke up from the other side of the room. “Ember, the Otherworld's wonder mutt.

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

Life is like a book written with lots of surprises,Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise.

The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.

So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don't bother reading the blurb on the back, or the first page - the writer's obviously going to be trying their hardest there, aren't they? It's how they're getting on by page 123 that's the real test. If they're crap at writing or bored with their story then you can bet they won't be making any effort at all by that point.

One can feel obliged to look at phototgraphs that record great cruelties and crimes. One should feel obliged to think about what it means to look at them, about the capacity actually to assimilate what they show. Not all reactions to these pictures are under the supervision of reason and conscience.

Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules. NetworkEtiquette.net

We could all have been killed -or worse, expelled.

If you are ready to cry..to feel the pain..to take the risk? You are ready for love

He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading a book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.

We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that we will remain resourceful always.

So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.

Love is always about losing somethin

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader’s mind gave it life.

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.

No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.

The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested in anyone else.

Enjoy the RIDE NOW. You'll be SUCCESSFUL later, however YOU define SUCCESS.

I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

Books, an addiction for the soul...

Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.

I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, 'how was I living before this?

Can you imagine life without a book?

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said. So hold me. Now. Right here.

A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.

I love the smell of old books,” Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs.

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

Books are more to treasure than cars.

I could leave the world of the book enthralled and inspired, but the real world awaited me, to caress or to kick me; reality was a powerful force that could not be ignored.

Master the art of selfloveand you will never have to seekvalidationever again.

You turned the page, i burned the book.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same feline’s fangs are filed down to blunt, un-tearing teeth and her roar is silenced, can she still be called a lioness?

Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read.

What in this fucking world are you going to tell me?...One book has been written by You so far... you have read few books and you are spreading what!?

Keep moving. Don't get bogged down. Don't think about the bad stuff. Smile and joke even when you don't feel like it.

No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides children, so many invisible births, exchanges of soul and character, blossoming of unknown selves, liberation of hidden treasures, buried fantasies...

Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself unconditionally and making your dreams come true? Is it a voice in your head or a gut wrenching ache that compromises your inner peace and doesn’t allow you to accept the love around you? Is there one thing, or maybe many things, keeping you from forgiving your past and moving forward, tormenting you with lies like “You don’t deserve real love so just settle for whatever you can get,” “You’re not smart enough to achieve your dream so don’t even try,” or “Look at your past… you should hate yourself way more than you actually do!”?Welcome to your Little Monster.

You can cream your dream by enriching your thought with clean and desirable things.

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

Life is a book. When one chapter ends, the next one begins...