I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
Interpretation
Books can feel like friends, offering companionship and knowledge.
In this quote, Tahereh Mafi expresses the joy and comfort of being surrounded by books in a bookstore. She personifies the books, likening them to friends who beckon to her through their pages, highlighting the emotional connection and the warmth that literature can provide to those who seek refuge in it.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a book club meeting to express the joy of reading.
I spent my life folded between the pages of books._x000D_ In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
The moon is a loyal companion._x000D_ It never leaves. Itβs always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day itβs a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human._x000D_ Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.
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