{"quotes":[{"text":"The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened.","author":"L.J. deVet","tags":["book","book-love","book-lover","book-lovers","book","books","bookworm","bookworms","l-j-devet","read","reader","readers-and-writers","reading","reading-books","reading","write","writing"],"id":22894,"author_id":"L.J.+deVet"},{"text":"Books open new worlds to me.","author":"Aya Ling","tags":["aya-ling","book-love","books","bookworms","new-worlds","spread-your-wings"],"id":64811,"author_id":"Aya+Ling"},{"text":"Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.","author":"Kimberly McCreight","tags":["book-love","books"],"id":65414,"author_id":"Kimberly+McCreight"},{"text":"Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.","author":"Adelise M. Cullens","tags":["book","book-love","book-lovers","book","books","books-reading","bookstore","bookstores","bookworm","love","reading","reality"],"id":100792,"author_id":"Adelise+M.+Cullens"},{"text":"King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...It was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about.","author":"Charlie Lovett","tags":["book-love","book-lover-wisdom","book-lovers","books","love-of-reading"],"id":115017,"author_id":"Charlie+Lovett"},{"text":"Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.","author":"Kat Lowe","tags":["book-love","book-preservation","reading"],"id":145994,"author_id":"Kat+Lowe"},{"text":"I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know exist. I knocked on the closed door, said the proper passwords, and the door opened before me. I walked in, and the ghost of the Head Librarian, a thin, dusty presence, with dark eyes and a disapproving look, appeared before me, blocking my way. (He had been eaten by a book, then brought back by the other books, apparently because they approved of him. Because even though he didn't have much time for people, he loved books.).","author":"Simon R. Green","tags":["book-love","eaten-by-a-book","forbidden-books","ghosts","librarians","libraries"],"id":408665,"author_id":"Simon+R.+Green"},{"text":"Delighted,' Jess said. 'I think all houses should be stuffed with books. It makes them--'Homes?' the doctor finished. 'You are quite the heretic, for someone in a Library uniform.'Guilty.","author":"Rachel Caine","tags":["ash-and-quill","book-love","book","bookish","books","bookworm","ink-and-bone","rachel-caine","the-great-library"],"id":423073,"author_id":"Rachel+Caine"},{"text":"And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were hardly jokes, that she had not even noticed before.","author":"Alan Bennett","tags":["book-love","love-of-reading","loving-books","reading-books","reading-development","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-love","reading-motivation","reading-muscle","reading","reading-secrets","the-uncommon-reader","wisdom-of-winners"],"id":432376,"author_id":"Alan+Bennett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}