65 phrases from books to encourage the habit of reading

True love never wears out. The more you give the more you have.

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This is also blindness, living in a world where hope is gone.

Essay on Blindness – Saramago

It was a long time ago, but I discovered that what they say about the past, that we can bury it, isn’t true. Because, one way or another, he always manages to escape.

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

There are things that are precious because they don’t last.

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Life is full of obligations that we fulfill, no matter how much we want to blatantly violate them.

Dom Casmurro – Machado de Assis

What trying times those years were – having the desire and need to live, but not the ability.

Hot Mixed – Charles Bukowski

When the feet are right, everything else follows suit.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis

To pretend that men’s lives are always guided by reason is to destroy all possibility of life.

War and Peace – Tolstoy

As long as they don’t become aware, they won’t be authentic rebels, and as long as they don’t rebel, they have no way to become aware.

1984 – George Orwell

When I woke up this morning, I knew who I was, but I think I’ve changed many times since then.

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

Never fear thieves or murderers. These are external dangers, small dangers. We fear ourselves. Prejudices, these are the thieves; vices, these are the killers. The great dangers are within us. What does it matter what threatens our lives or our purses?! Let us be concerned only with what threatens our soul.

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Do you want a heart? You don’t know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they are made not to break.

The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum

By dint of reading and imagining so much, I was distancing myself from reality to the point where I could no longer distinguish in which dimension I live.

Don Quixote – Cervantes