The best Quotes from The Brooklyn Follies

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

Paul Auster

Reading

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Paul Auster

Imagination

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Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought.

Paul Auster

Libraries

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Paul Auster

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Paul Auster

Moments

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Reading

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

Banksy in Cut It Out

Reading

I feel so extraordinarily happy and free when I read that I'm convinced it could make everything else in my life bearable.

Deborah Feldmann in Unorthodox

Reading

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Kate DiCamillo

Reading

Reading can be as magical as any spell.

Agnes Scribner in Hogwarts Legacy

Reading

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

Tracy Chevalier

Illness & Sickness Reading

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Imagination

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Gaston: "How can you read this, there's no pictures?"
Belle: "Well, some people use their imagination."

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

Imagination Reading

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only once."

George R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Dance with Dragons

Imagination Reading

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Kobe Bryant in Training Camp

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