Book Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great…

— David Benioff

“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

“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

“She loved books. She loved them with her senses and her intellect. They way they looked and smelled; the way they felt in her…

— Betty Smith

“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

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many…

— Robin McKinley

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“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

“My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any means. I…

— Geraldine Brooks

“I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass them on or recommend…

— Will Schwalbe