"You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"We find paradise in every library and bookshop."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
"I love lying here with you, under the books."
- Cath Crowley
"Books and bookcases cropping up in stuff that I've written means that they have to be reproduced on stage or on film. This isn't as straightforward as it might seem. A designer will either present you..."
- Alan Bennett
"Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once traversed them. These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bar..."
- Kamand Kojouri
"If you want to talk about it with someone, then I`m happy to listen, or try and help, but you should only tell me if you want to."
- Jane Green
"That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said."
"Forever feels a long time when you're eighteen. When you're away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant friendships that are so strong they are destined, surely, to be with ..."
"I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other per..."
"You must work to live, not live to work."