Book Quote by Eloisa James Download Open image “The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.” — Eloisa James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Desperate Desperate Woman Reading
“She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save by the frequent and plentiful acquisition of books. This passion is more common, and more powerful, than most people suppose. Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sara, who snatched her lessons at all sorts of untimely hours from tattered and discarded books, and who had a hungry craving for everything readable, was often severe upon them in her small mind. They had books they never read; she had no books at all. If she had always had something to read, she would not have been so… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They're more of a pamphlet sex. — Alex Linder Copy Share Image
“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“The only thing I know about books, is that they should be like a woman's dress: long enough to cover the subject and short… — James A. Newman Copy Share Image
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“It was as if the world was presenting her with everything she wanted ... in all the wrong ways.” — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“My eyes would have told you everything you wanted to know in the parlor ... You would never have spouted that drivel about how… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“Will Peter be joining us for tea, do you think?' 'I doubt it. Peter rarely returns home before late in the evening.' 'Oh.' Quill… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person. — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“One night she got into an argument with one of the scientists about the recent discovery of a new planet called Uranus [...] 'What… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“Marry me, Esme. Please. Honor me. I will honor you as your husband never did. Our marriage would be a remedy against sin, if… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“I would like, just once, for a woman to see me as other than a person with a coronet. Simply as a man, no… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“Didn't it say it all that Griffin couldn't make it to his own bloody front door without a cane? For all his was mahogany… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“You're confusing desire and love,' she said, watching him. 'They are not the same.' 'I do love you. I feel near to murder at the idea of you marrying another man, and that's the truth of the matter.' 'Desire is bloody, perjured, full of blame.' Ewan walked up the steps to her. 'Is that poetry?' 'Yes.' 'I don't like the… — Eloisa James Copy Share
In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire,… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel. — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities. — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image