“ French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than God a… Jennifer Donnelly
“ You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in the spirit of a duel, so you can both wound and be wounded, so you are willing to argue, to… Sandor Maraï
“ For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one. Eileen Favorite
“ We read to understand our intuition of the world, to discover that someone a thousand miles and years away has put into words our most intimate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a co… Alberto Manguel
“ I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out. Jennifer Donnelly
“ What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry. Oscar Wilde
“ I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now? Lynne Sharon Schwartz
“ There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. Maggie Stiefvater
“ The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions. Inglath Cooper
“ In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked u… Trenton Lee Stewart
“ Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appe… Washington Irving
“ …the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something believed in with conviction or seen with precision and thus compelling words to a shape… Virginia Woolf
“ Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shr… Mildred D. Taylor
