Book Quote by Elif Shafak

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and…

— Alice Dalgliesh

“There are so many things to know and learn. She reads...and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.”

— Janice Y.K. Lee

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did…

— Tim Lebbon

“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were thousands who…

— Parents' National Education Union

“I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you…

— Joy Cowley

“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was…

— Robert Goolrick

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“Things were about to change. If nothing changed, I wouldn't be writing this down because this is a book about the time when everything…

— David Iserson

“And when she died, she was lonely, and scared, and she missed her books. And she pretty much just got up and walked back…

— Tim Byrd

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves.”

— Virginia Woolf

“She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.”

— Hilda Van Stockum