--- title: "1 Book Learned Quotes By Robert Goolrick" description: "1 Book Learned quotes by Robert Goolrick. Plus more from Robert Goolrick and more Book Learned sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b3/robert-goolrick-8745_books_learning-became-her-she-loved-the-smell_782385.png" --- > [“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/learning-became-her-she-loved-the-smell-of-the-books-the-shelves-the/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b3/robert-goolrick-8745_books_learning-became-her-she-loved-the-smell_782385.png) ## More by Robert Goolrick > [“She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/she-had-no-one-in-the-world-her-whole-world-what-was-left-of-it-was/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/the-beginnings-were-sweet-the-endings-usually-bitter-but-the-middles/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/if-you-don-t-receive-love-from-the-ones-who-are-meant-to-love-you-you/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/there-is-a-loveliness-to-life-that-does-not-fade-even-in-the-terrors/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [“Be not dishearten’d—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. —WALT WHITMAN, “Over the Carnage Rose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/be-not-dishearten-d-affection-shall-solve-the-problems-of-freedom-yet/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [“She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. “Catherine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/she-was-just-a-simple-honest-woman-standing-in-the-ruin-of-a-late/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [“Standing in the center of the crowd, his solitude was enormous. He felt that in all the vast and frozen space in which he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/standing-in-the-center-of-the-crowd-his-solitude-was-enormous-he-felt/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [“You wreck your own life and then, very gently, you wreck the lives of those around you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/you-wreck-your-own-life-and-then-very-gently-you-wreck-the-lives-of/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [“She was the beautiful, lethal,insinuating spider he had waited for all his life. She was the final knife in his heart. He opened his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/she-was-the-beautiful-lethal-insinuating-spider-he-had-waited-for-all/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [“I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am tired of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/i-tell-these-stories-because-i-have-lied-about-my-life-to-people-who/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [“But there was no use. There was no point. It was just a story. It was just a story of people, of Ralph and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/but-there-was-no-use-there-was-no-point-it-was-just-a-story-it-was/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [“I loved kissing them on the mouth, the taste of their tongues. I think kissing is what separated us from the animals and makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/i-loved-kissing-them-on-the-mouth-the-taste-of-their-tongues-i-think/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [“Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/somewhere-in-the-pain-there-is-pleasure-and-that-is-the-most-awful/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [The thing is, all memory is fiction,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/the-thing-is-all-memory-is-fiction/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) > [“He walked home, completely at peace. He knew now he would go on doing the things he was doing -- going to work, buying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/he-walked-home-completely-at-peace-he-knew-now-he-would-go-on-doing/) [Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book-learned/robert-goolrick/#itemlist", "name": "1 Book Learned Quotes By Robert Goolrick", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book. She learned the card catalog. She never learned more than she needed to know. 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