#cantlivewithoutbooks

Ten Favorite Book Quotes :

1.  The Pleasures of Life by John Lubbock

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.  

2. Marcus Tullius Cicero

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

3. Mark Twain

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

4. C.S. Lewis

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

5. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

6. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

7. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”

8. J.K. Rowling

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

9. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen :

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

Ten Books I Could Re-read Forever :

Pride and Prejudices by Jane Austen

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

If I Stay series by Gayle Forman

Mathilda by Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer

The Book with no Picture by B.J. Novak

Le Voyage de Théo by Catherine Clément

Le Mange Doudou by Julien Béziat

Ten Bookish Resolutions / Goals :

Finish writing my first novel

Write a little each day

Read at least 50 books this year

Read a classic by month

Write a weekly column for my blog La Théière Littéraire

Complete my Baby Lit collection from Gibbs Smith

Customize my bookshelves in my new living room

Create a beautiful book nook in the bedroom of my little princess

Stimulate her imagination by reading all kinds of books

Read, read, read... and read again...