Reading Quote by Christina Baker Kline

“She's the first person to smile at me today. The first to make me feel wanted. Understood. I blink back tears. It's unknown how…

— Lisa Fipps

“The date was in your paperwork.” Miss Larsen smiles, handing me a slice of currant bread. “My landlady made this.” I look at her,…

— Christina Baker Kline

“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading…

— John Green

“I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like veal.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

“Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she looked at me like…

— Stephen Chbosky

“She read with all the sensuality and absorption of a preteen girl, stocking-footed, sliding down the sofa, completely immersed, her hand foraging on the…

— Emma Rathbone

“The woman was putting her purse in the drawer and settling down behind the desk, and I realized I had never seen her before…

— Alan Bradley

“I'd thought of her with unblinking eyes, moving always, across the pages of opened books with rapid precision, but as she stood in front…

— Amber Dermont

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I like the fact that she thinks. The human face is so legible that it sometimes seems possible to watch their thoughts, the way…

— Laura Bradley Rede

“Oh, reading! There is something singularly unattractive about a woman reading a book, I always think. Hunched and squinting in a corner while everyone…

— Kate Riordan

“Sometimes I wonder if she knows, I wonder in my Nothingest moments if she's testing me, if she types nonsense all day long, or…

— Jonathan Safran Foer