Book Quote by Deb Caletti

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had…

— Pat Conroy

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“Books are the best friends a girl could have.”

— Andrea Heltsley

To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had…

— Henry James

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

— Sarah Addison Allen

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

— Charles Frazier

She didn't want the typical Hollywood lifestyle of juggling a career and leaving the kids at home with nannies, so she'd take me to…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the…

— Betty Smith

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

— Betty Smith

She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing…

— Tom Perrotta

If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never…

— Michael Ondaatje

“With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination.”

— Lorraine Heath