Books Quote by Becky Chambers Download Open image ““She was glad to have met someone who liked to read.”” — Becky Chambers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.” — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“She'd always been good at reading people, but she couldn't read him. And holy fuck, did she want to.” — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
“I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I'd just met the kind of girl books are written about. There was no one… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“I began to think I quite liked her really. It's always so nice to meet someone more badly behaved than oneself.” — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“Owl had been good to her. She stayed on the screen by the bed all day, and she taught Jane about something called music,… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
“There were few things Dr. Chef enjoyed more than a cup of tea. He made tea for the crew every day at breakfast time, of course, but that involved an impersonal heap of leaves dumped into a clunky dispenser. A solitary cup of tea required more care, a blend carefully chosen to match his day. He found the ritual of… — Becky Chambers Copy Share
“He did not run from his grief, nor did he deny its existence. He could study his grief from a distance, like a scientist… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
“We hail from systems that remained self-contained for billions of years, with evolutionary clocks that all began at different times. How is it possible… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
“The stronger belief would survive, the weaker would be erased. This was how harmony was made. He should have killed her. Striker training or… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
“If you know what you’d like—’ ‘I do.’ Pepper nodded seriously. ‘I’d like the left side of the menu, please.” — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
“She felt as though she could reach out to that little girl and pull her through the years. Look, she’d say. Look who you’re… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
“I love learning. I love history. But there's history in everything. Every building, everybody you talk to. It's not limited to libraries and museums.… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
“Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.” “What causes the other ten percent?” asked Kizzy. “Natural disasters,” — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
“And for the first time ever, I didn’t want a brother anymore, because I finally had one.” — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
“All of you do this. Every organic sapient I’ve ever talked to, every book I’ve read, every piece of art I’ve studied. You are all desperate for purpose, even though you don’t have one. You’re animals, and animals don’t have a purpose. Animals just are. And there are a lot of intelligent – sentient, maybe – animals out there who… — Becky Chambers Copy Share
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
