Books Quote by Bookends Jane Green

“Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced…

— Paula McLain

“But for me to start the journey of writing a book about my life, the first place I had to re visit was my…

— Christian S. Simpson

“I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go…

— Paul Auster

“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult…

— Cheryl Strayed

“It may sound dorky, but I love books--the feel of the paper, the old, musty smell, and especially the way the words roll over…

— Cheryl Renee Herbsman

“I thought that I could make my life into a book that had no life or love in it. . . . Now I…

— Sarah Waters

“Books became my life, or maybe I should say books became the way I escaped from my life.”

— Beth Hoffman

“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books…

— Junot Díaz

“Somewhere along the way, I stopped living in the real world. I expected life to be like my books. I expected happily ever after…

— Nick Pageant

“I love books. I love that moment when I open one and sink into it. I can escape from the world, into a story…

— Anonymous

“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest…

— Cassandra Clare