puremaguire: A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
puremaguire: You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend
puremaguire: I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves
puremaguire: “A home without books is a body without soul.”
puremaguire: Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity
puremaguire: Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
puremaguire: The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I haven't read.