“And we knew that in all languages, there are words as warm as breath and others as cold as metal.”
―The Day Saida Arrived by
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“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
—Chinese Proverb
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“Hope and peace and love and trust
All the world is all of us.”
—All The World by Liz Garton Scanlon
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”…if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
—The Twits by Roald Dahl
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“But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.”
—Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
—Charles William Eliot
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“A story is about the reader, not the writer.”
—Richard Peck
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“‘What day is it?’, asked Winnie the Pooh.
‘It’s today,’ squeaked Piglet.
‘My favorite day,’ said Pooh.”—The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
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“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
— Langston Hughes
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“Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.”
– Malala Yousafzai