Books Quote by Betty Smith

“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

“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were thousands who…

— Parents' National Education Union

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

— Thorne Smith

“She had been adept at the beginning and the end of things, and now she saw that whatever pleasures life had to offer lay…

— Robert Goolrick

“Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In the time…

— Elif Shafak

“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

“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

“She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it.…

— Laini Taylor

“But it had been a wonderful day, the most wonderful day in her whole life. She thought about the beautiful lake, and the town…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The world of books is a world of wonder. She's been out there a little bit. Into the world.”

— Sally-Ann Murray

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister