Book Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“His words put an ache in her heart. She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was,…

— Maya Banks

“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

“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.”

— Markus Zusak

“For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between…

— Daphne du Maurier

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“She tasted of salvation and damnation at once. No woman had ever lured him to forget who he was…forget his past, his future, and…

— Vonda Sinclair

“To know that she could not be near God in peace and love without fulfilling certain mental conditions — that he would not have…

— George MacDonald

“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her life. Why…

— James A. Newman

“Then she felt herself, she said, to enter into the very bosom of God, where she was transformed into her Beloved, so completely that…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“Would he be haunted, as she knew she would be, by the memory of the love they'd once clung to, yet tented to so…

— Joy Fielding

“She buried herself so deep in the book no harm could ever find her.”

— Susan Johnson