Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

  • -- Lemony Snicket 雷蒙·斯尼奇

不要相信那些没有带书的人。

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As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.

当我还是个孩子的时候,我真的很喜欢和精灵、妖精和刀剑一起读奇幻小说,有几年我经历了一个阅读无穷无尽的系列的阶段。但最后我完全受够了这些模仿托尔金的作品,因为他们最后都在做同样的事情,没有一丝严谨。

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

我们成为什么样的人,取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

每一位读者的存在都是为了确保某本书适度地不朽。从这个意义上说,阅读是一种重生的仪式。

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

读书对她来说不是一种退路,而是一种理想的生存状态。