![]() ![]() On the other hand, their words might be the thing that inspires you to come up with the perfect sentiment yourself. ![]() After all, just as they often do in books, authors have a way of expressing what you’ve always thought in a way you’ve never thought about saying it. James BaldwinĬouldn’t quite find just the right inscription in this list of quotes? Many of them are pulled directly from literature, so you can always open the book you’re giving and look for the right words within its pages. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Eagan For Someone Whose Dreams Are Fueled by Booksīooks were my pass to personal freedom. I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. “Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read. There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it. Abraham Lincoln For Someone Who Appreciates a Little HumorĪlways read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. Irving Stoneīooks, like friends, should be few and well chosen. There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. Marcel Proust For the Friend Who Talks About Books With You for Hours There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Katherine Youngīooks are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. With books, I slip out of my life and am with the choicest company. It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. Oscar Wilde For Someone Who Talks About Books As If They’re PeopleĪ first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. Haruki MurakamiĪ classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. Henry Ward Beecher For Someone Who Loves A Book That Leaves Them Thinking Frank Zappaīooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. I love the smell of book ink in the morning. I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library. Anna Quindlen For Someone Who Collects Books Like They’re Going Out of Style They are the destination, and the journey. So when you’re the giver, what to write in a book as a gift is one of the most important questions to tackle before getting out the wrapping paper.īooks are the plane, and the train, and the road. As the gift receiver, that inscription means as much as the book does-in fact, a quick Internet search brings up a plethora of cherished book inscription images, some decades old. The person who gifted you the book perhaps wrote an inscription to you inside the front cover. There’s also the hours of curling up with it, the thoughts and characters that stay with you long after-and of course, remembering the person who got it for you. Is there any better gift than a book all wrapped up with a bow? The new-book smell and possibility of an unforgettable story are just the beginning. When she isn’t knee-deep in words or marathon training, she’s hanging out with her smart, funny husband and their two extremely opinionated dogs. Her writing has been featured in The Dallas Morning News, Running Room Magazine, The Bookwoman, and on stage at LitNight Dallas and the Oral Fixation live storytelling show. Stacey Megally is a writer, runner, and incurable bookworm. ![]()
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