Books Quote by Elizabeth Strout

“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing…

— Sara Levine

“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room." She had laughed and said, "I've read…

— Sarah Addison Allen

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

— Stephanie Hemphill

“She didn't know what to make of him. Why he would be intrested in her, she could only guess. Maybe he only wanted her…

— Marie Zhuikov

“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from what you…

— Chad Harbach

“Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“We were supposed to be studying literature together. Instead I wanted to take her off the shelf, crack her open, and read the shit…

— Kendall Ryan

“She didn't know how long they stared at each other, but the look on his face made her forget about the book.”

— Sasha Summers

“She saw now that she could not tell him about the books she had loved any more than she could make him see the…

— Elizabeth George Speare

“Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obsessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.”

— Hilma Wolitzer

“I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and started talking…

— Kathryn Davis

“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.”

— Alan Bennett