Nose in a Book

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them."

— Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

"In approved places, every story serves a purpose. But forbidden books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch.
And some of them-the best ones-are doors."

— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

"If you take a book with you on a journey,…an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it…yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."

— Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (via bookstorecouture)

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood