Nature Quote by Hali Felt

“...being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much delight as…

— Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters

“Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did…

— Tim Lebbon

“My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any means. I…

— Geraldine Brooks

“My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It’s my mom’s fault really, because she read to…

— Catherine Cruzan

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by…

— Jane Austen

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set…

— Charles Frazier

“Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.”

— Stella Gibbons

“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into…

— Jane Austen

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in…

— Jane Austen