Some favorite book quotes (etc):

A few from Inheart:
Some books should be tasted
some devoured,
but only a few
should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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 youwere reading it. . .yes, books are like flypaper--memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not,
this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in
his hand and rend him.
Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted.
Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let
there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution.
Let booksworms gnaw his entrails. . .and when at last he
goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume
him for ever.
Curse on book thieves, from the monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain.

She's a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books--looks as if she likes them better than human company.

"Book club discussions are always more interesting when accompanied by a glass (or bottle) of wine."

"Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books." --from I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

"Let us dare to read, think, speak and write."--John Adams

"I have sometimes dreamt...that when the Day of Judgment dawns...the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, 'Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.'" --Virginia Woolf, "How One Should Read a Book"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. " --The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx

"If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all." -- Fenelon

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours." - J.D. Salinger

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."--by Antoine de Saint Exupéry