Book Quote by Betty Smith

“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

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

— Betty Smith

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

— Betty Smith

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and…

— Karen Marie Moning

The world was hers for the reading.

— Betty Smith

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had…

— Henry James

She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed in it…

— Maya Banks

“Books had been her solace when she was sad, her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it was broken,…

— Jenny Colgan

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough…

— Alan Bennett

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak