Books Quote by Austin Wright

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“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

“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two strangers as…

— Deborah Meyler

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“She always told me, “When the world gives you a hard time, pick up a book and join another.”

— Abby Fabiaschi

“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

“I hate how books do this to you. They destroy your soul, pick and prod them till the bleed, stab your eyes so you…

— Darby Browne

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather

“The girl knew that quarrels would come because their lives were intertwined - how passionately one defends a heart that is vulnerable.”

— Martine Leavitt

“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your heart.”

— Holly Black

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich