Books Quote by Dan Micklethwaite

“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in Iraq. Dog-eared,…

— Michael Anthony

“She wanted to own a book so badly and she had thought the copying would do it. But the pencilled sheets did not seem…

— Betty Smith

“In December 2008, I had the book with me while we waited for Dr. O'Reilly. Mom had already finished it. Every time I put…

— Will Schwalbe

“She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.”

— Peter Straub

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

— Sandhya Menon

“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated…

— Virginia Woolf

“but when you held one of those volumes in your hands, you were leafing through another person’s life. Someone else had once loved that…

— Jodi Picoult

“You cast another bewildered look at the books around you (or, rather: it was the books that looked at you, with the bewildered gaze…

— Italo Calvino

“To my amazement, miraculously, the lid suddenly loosened and slid all the way open, revealing its hidden cargo: A stack of small paper booklets.…

— Syrie James

“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into…

— Jane Austen

“CUSTOMER: I don’t know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook. BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?”

— Jen Campbell

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing…

— Virginia Woolf