Raabe Kiad Quotes

I love books. I need them, those self-contained little worlds between two covers where I can travel whenever I have the feeling I'm living in the wrong world - or when my own world is hemming me in or eluding me or hurting me. ~ Melanie Raabe

Indeed, there is something about reading in a restaurant that is borderline romantic. Leaning back in that corner booth, an evocative title in our hands, a stale cup of java in front of us, every so often bolting forward to jot a phrase onto the napkin, we look like, well, poets-unknown belletrists scraping through the hardscrabble years and awaiting the distinction that is imminent. the waiter of waitress refills our cup, we drop a memorable apothegm or two, share a laugh fraught with meaning, scope out the joint, and return to our tome. Nonbiblioholics strain to espy our title; conversation is struck up on things Kafkaesque and Kierkegaardian; and we forge a genuine biblioholic simpatico with all around. ~ Tom Raabe

Nature, too, seems to sense that something is coming to and end; it's summoning all it's strength for one last surge. ~ Melanie Raabe

It is a miracle. I remind myself that I am on a tiny planet that is moving at an insane speed through a boundless universe, never tiring of its flight around the sun, and I think to myself: it's crazy. That we exist at all, that the earth exists and the sun and the starts, and that I can sit here and see and feel all this. It's incredible; it's a miracle/ If this is possible, anything's possible. ~ Melanie Raabe

Films are my way of passing the time; books are my passion, my true love. But music is my refuge. ~ Melanie Raabe

We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring. ~ Tom Raabe

Doubt is like a thorn you can't get a hold on. ~ Melanie Raabe