Books Quote by George Eliot

“In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not…

— George Eliot

“They were very bitter tears: everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie: there was no indulgence, no fondness, such as…

— George Eliot

“For a guy who struggled with finding his place in the world, standing next to Maggie, I understood one thing on a very fundamental…

— A. Meredith Walters

“We live in an odd world, where books are filled with expressions of love, and lives devoid of it.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

“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 loved to return to the world of the book, a workd in which people were willing to let go of everything in order…

— Brian Morton

“The world was not a place she could enjoy like any normal child; it lacked excitement and stimulation for her. She had been deadened…

— Cathy Glass

“It’s every man for himself,” he said, and went back to reading. After my mother had died and he’d been laid off from his…

— Jeffrey Ford

“She'd always perceived the world to be against her. Happiness was never to be trusted. And yet I thought vaguely, neither was sorrow. Didn't…

— Regina O'Melveny

“Her ticket to freedom lay in her lap. Ever an avid reader, Annie had escaped into books in recent months, when all else failed…

— Barbara Delinsky

“she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl…

— Betty Smith

“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the…

— Fae Sutherland