Historical-romance Quote by Anne Mallory

“She'd always been good at reading people, but she couldn't read him. And holy fuck, did she want to.”

— Kit Rocha

“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

“All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being…

— Terry Pratchett

“And when she died, she was lonely, and scared, and she missed her books. And she pretty much just got up and walked back…

— Tim Byrd

“She’d opened the book she bought today. She’d started to read, from the beginning, quite quietly, out loud. It was the best of times,…

— Ali Smith

“Ah, the magic of books. The kind of magic that had nothing to do with witches or spells or charms. And was perhaps even…

— Heather Blake

“. . . this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.”

— Gregory Maguire

“She's finding out she don't know much, and that's gonna make her feel lost for a spell. All her book smarts is worth a…

— Leah Weiss

“Reading helps her escape. It lets her escape to an imaginary world where she can live another life. Where she can forget about her…

— Madeleine Beckett

“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.”

— C. Toni Graham

“There are so many things to know and learn. She reads...and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.”

— Janice Y.K. Lee

“Funny, she had all that ink on her skin to protect her from ghosts and magic, and he were damn sure doing what he…

— Stacia Kane