Books Quote by Anne Carson

“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”

— Ross McDonald

“The accumulation of consecutive rooms in his memory now resembled those displays of grouped elbow chairs on show, and beds, and lamps, and inglebooks…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface.…

— Jenny Nimmo

“Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every drop of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“He had written books of a lifetime, on the airs of vast rooms in vast buildings, and had it all fly out the vents.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Books enveloped the room floor to ceiling like wallpaper.”

— Judy Baer

“Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.”

— Laini Taylor

“He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door…

— Chris Adrian

“We walked to another door with an amber light above it. This one led to a hall I hadn’t seen before. It was less…

— Mira Grant

“... He who thought at last the books would tell him why people couldn't stay, and how their maps unraveled into ink-dissolving roads, while…

— Wyatt Prunty

“It was like living entirely inside a book.”

— Diane Setterfield