Afternoon Quote by Betty Smith

“she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl…

— Betty Smith

“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 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 went and stood at an open window and looked out upon the deep tangle of the garden below. All the mystery and witchery…

— Kate Chopin

“Even then, only a child, she knew she had to pretend to be someone else -- for her parents, for their customers, for everyone…

— Leslie Parry

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to…

— Marguerite Duras

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

The Little House was very happy as she sat on the hill and watched the countryside around her. She watched the sun rise in…

— Virginia Lee Burton

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

“Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent and vivid,…

— Philip Pullman

“She seemed to have waited so long to hear those words that for a moment the earth stood still, and the moon, the trees,…

— Vera Brittain