“Passion for books is pleasurable.”— Lailah Gifty Akita Related Quotes “It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it – and that to my mind is one of the best tests.”— C.S. Lewis “It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”— Anna Quindlen “There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.”— Alberto Manguel