{"quotes":[{"text":"The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["ambition","beleive-and-you-shall-receive","books","books","bookshelves","bookstores","christian","determined-spirit","educational-philosophy","educational","inspirational-life","inspirational","learner","learning-process","learning","library","library-books","lifelong-education","lifelong-learner","motivation","optimism","pleasure","read","read-and-write","readers","reading","self-help","solitude","student","uplifting","wisdo","wise-wise-words","writers"],"id":25438,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across every inch of exposed wall. They rise up to the ceiling, warriors of an impenetrable army, encircling my over-sized armchair and keeping me safe as they whisper their stories softly in my ear.","author":"Kelseyleigh Reber","tags":["booklover","books","bookshelves","joy-of-reading","love-of-books","read","reading","reading-books","stories"],"id":31343,"author_id":"Kelseyleigh+Reber"},{"text":"I am happy to have all the books I need to read.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["book","book-lover","bookshelves","bookstores","education","happiness","knowledge","learning","learning-process","library","lifelong-learner","positive-thinking","read","self-development","self-improvement","self-motivation","thankful"],"id":35831,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.Not only do you learn in the journey of your pages, but rediscover yourself, with your virtues and defects ... Often makes you question everything, even life itself.The books are fantastic, as they not only transport you to other places and the awakening of sensations, curiosity, laughter, hilarity, sadness, etc. Other times, it can give you a quiet space in truculent moments, and lead you to a level of peace, acceptance, healthy optimism, that I will never tire of recommending it.Never stop reading, there are no excuses ... There are always some minutes in any place, at any time and a huge universe for all tastes !!!","author":"Liz Hay","tags":["book-lovers","book","book","books","books-reading","bookshelves","bookshops","feelings-emotions","phrases-of-lovers-of-the-reading","of-books","the-meaning-of-the-books"],"id":45965,"author_id":"Liz+Hay"},{"text":"If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell because to my mind heaven like life must be a thing sensual and real. And my book will be a river and have the Salmon literal and metaphoric leaping inside it and be called History of the Rain, so that his book does not perish, and you will know my book exists because of him and because of his books and his aspiration to leap up, to rise. You will know that I found him in his books, in the covers his hands held, the pages they turned, in the paper and the print, but also in the worlds those books contained, where now I have been and you have been too. You will know the story goes from the past to the present and into the future, and like a river flows.","author":"Niall Williams","tags":["books","bookshelves","reading","stories","writing"],"id":68918,"author_id":"Niall+Williams"},{"text":"Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.","author":"Alberto Manguel","tags":["books","bookshelves","libraries","tsundoku"],"id":70923,"author_id":"Alberto+Manguel"},{"text":"My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.","author":"Anne Fadiman","tags":["books","bookshelves","parents","shelves"],"id":128169,"author_id":"Anne+Fadiman"},{"text":"Until a man begins to read, then He will discover himself.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["bible-reading","books","books-reading","bookshelves","bookstores","christian-life","development","education","education-system","inspirational","learner","library","lifelong","personal-growth","positive-thinking","potential","read","self-discovery","self-improvement","self-motivation","self-study","wise-words"],"id":131696,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.","author":"Austin Kleon","tags":["books","bookshelves","library","reading","tsundoku","unread","unread-books"],"id":137749,"author_id":"Austin+Kleon"},{"text":"Built-in shelves line my bedroom, adjacent to my Japanese platform bed, purchased for its capacious rim, the better to hold those books that must be immediately accessible. Yet still they pile on my nightstand, and the grid of shelves continues in floor-to-ceiling formation across the wall, stampeding over the doorway in disorderly fashion, political memoirs mixed in with literary essays, Victorian novels fighting for space with narrative adventure, the Penguin classics never standing together in a gracious row no matter how hard I try to impose order. The books compete for attention, assembling on the shelf above the sofa on the other side of the room, where they descend by the window, staring back at me. As I lie in bed with another book, they lie in wait.","author":"Pamela Paul","tags":["books","bookshelves","reading"],"id":143895,"author_id":"Pamela+Paul"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}