"As a reader, I want a book to……" — Erica Jong
"As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft."
More Bereft Quotes
- I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do… — David Bowie
- In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of… — Douglas MacArthur
- The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual… — Charles Dickens
- Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and… — Loren Eiseley
- But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the… — Liza Dalby
- If you can't be pretty, you have to learn to make yourself attractive. I found that all the pretty girls… — Iris Apfel
- Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world,… — Lauren Willig
- There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely… — Richard L. Evans
- No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left. — Edwin Markham
- Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away… — Marilyn Hacker
- So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that… — Peter J. Carroll
- Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man — Dennis Prager