Assembly Quote by Alexander Pope

“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every…

— Roald Dahl

“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like a lover,…

— Cath Staincliffe

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading…

— Nicholas Sparks

“She kept a stack of books near the tub so she could read in the bath, even though the edges of the pages turned…

— Alice Hoffman

“She would give herself violently, then yawn at the wrongest moment. She would spend all one day cleaning up the flat, cooking, ironing. Then,…

— John Fowles

“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and…

— Kathy Cooperman

Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank.…

— Arundhati Roy

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the…

— Virginia Woolf

“She longed for porch friendship, for the sticky, hot sensation of familiar female legs thrown over hers in companionship. She pined for the girliness…

— Rebecca Wells