Book Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

— Paulo Coelho

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

— Betty Smith

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were…

— Kate Chopin

“She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?”

— Austin Wright

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

— Anonymous

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

— George Eliot

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed…

— Louisa May Alcott