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Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
Sep 17, 2025
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Love of books is the best of all.
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there are disappointments…one must not keep expectations. I like to be positive in love. I believe in happy endings.
Where there is love there is life.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
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.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
We accept the love we think we deserve.
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