Book Quote by Cornelia Funke

“She slowly rolled the book over in her hands, memorizing the cover as she said goodbye. She flipped through the pages, feeling the air…

— Sage Steadman

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

— Jane Hamilton

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or…

— Alice Munro

“The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book…

— M.J. Rose

“She set her book carefully down, dog-earing a corner of her page with love.”

— Sandhya Menon

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding…

— Shannon Hale

“She couldn’t imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book—pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at the colorful…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a…

— Tessa Hadley

“The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book…

— Allie Burke

“...after our weekly trip to the library, she cleared the top of her dresser and set out her week's reading, stood them on their…

— Eleanor Brown

It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line…

— Janet Fitch

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

— Charles Frazier