Best Book Lines
The lines we highlighted, memorized, and might quote too often.
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
“And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
“Reading brings us unknown friends.”
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door.”
“After all, tomorrow is another day.”
“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“Books may well be the only true magic.”
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”