--- title: "8 Pages Turned Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Pages Turned quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Pages Turned sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/sofia-samatar-32478_books_the-silence-end-of-all-poetry-all-romanc_118409.jpg" --- > [“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-samatar/the-silence-end-of-all-poetry-all-romances-earlier-frightened-you/) [Sofia Samatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-samatar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/sofia-samatar-32478_books_the-silence-end-of-all-poetry-all-romanc_118409.jpg) > [We have had the time of our lifes, now the pages are turned, leaving these memories behind , its hard to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-have-had-the-time-of-our-lifes-now-the-pages-are-turned-leaving/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fad/anonymous-1_goodbye_we-have-had-the-time-of-our-lifes-now-th_454642.jpg) > [I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helene-hanff/i-love-inscriptions-on-flyleaves-and-notes-in-margins-i-like-the/) [Helene Hanff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helene-hanff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/343/helene-hanff-17131_attention_i-love-inscriptions-on-flyleaves-and-not_641193.jpg) > [Some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/some-pages-turned-some-bridges-burned-but-there-were-lessons-learned/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed6/anonymous-1_lessons-learned_some-pages-turned-some-bridges-burned-bu_825924.jpg) > [“It is always good – is it not? – when all that hard work of writing pages is turned into a solid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-swinfen/it-is-always-good-is-it-not-when-all-that-hard-work-of-writing-pages/) [Ann Swinfen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-swinfen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/ann-swinfen-88507_books_it-is-always-good-is-it-not-when-all-tha_1070680.jpg) > [I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-stiefvater/i-smiled-at-the-stacks-inhaling-again-hundreds-of-thousands-of-pages/) [Maggie Stiefvater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-stiefvater/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/063/maggie-stiefvater-76_behinds_i-smiled-at-the-stacks-inhaling-again-hu_1992806.png) > [“Rip her dress off!” Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-butcher/rip-her-dress-off-bob-shouted-bob-the-skull-takes-paperback-romances/) [Jim Butcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-butcher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/570/jim-butcher-151_bob-the-skull_rip-her-dress-off-bob-shouted-bob-the-sk_2383898.jpg) > [Our lives will only be just a book on the shelf... it's up to you to decide whether the pages get turned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raina-spencer/our-lives-will-only-be-just-a-book-on-the-shelf-it-s-up-to-you-to/) [Raina Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raina-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b4/raina-spencer-87980_book_our-lives-will-only-be-just-a-book-on-th_3034837.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pages-turned/#itemlist", "name": "Pages Turned Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The silence. 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