Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.
– Adelise M Cullens
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- The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. – Jay Kristoff
- Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting. – Kim Stanley Robinson
- …there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to ???? and the desire to kill. – M Thomas Gammarino
- I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people. – Jennifer Donnelly
- Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short. – Sofija
- It is not enough for the hand to touch a book and turn its pages. The pages of a book must touch the heart. – JEB Spredemann
- …she made her home in between the pages of books. – Maggie Stiefvater
- [Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
- What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire. – Stanley Kunitz
- There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free. – R A Delmonico
- The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire. – RADelmonico
- To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
- Fill the pages of your life with the exciting story of triumph and tragedy, failure and victory, desire and discovery. – Debasish Mridha MD
- For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me… I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside. – Elizabeth C Bunce
- Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. – DW Winnicott
- I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy. – Charles M Schulz
- In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. – Alberto Manguel
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Writers don’t just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own. – TJ Mihaila
- Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. – Erin Morgenstern
- I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. – Thomas Carlyle
- Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. – Neil Gaiman
- Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else. – Cornelia Funke
- Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read. – Don Paterson
- You can tell if someone really loves Books by the way they look at them, how they open and close them, how they turn the pages. – Milena Busquets
- Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive. – Chris Grabenstein
- Hearts are like Books. You cannot understand one by flipping the pages or by reading the last chapter – Alok Jagawat
- Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed? – Shannon L Alder
- I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it. – Kelseyleigh Reber
- All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. – Thomas Carlyle
- There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. – George Gissing
- Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be – Unknown
- Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons. – Indu Muralidharan
- Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be. – Tony Collins