Peace Quote by Hilma Wolitzer

“Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obssessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.”

— Hilma Wolitzer

“Did she always have something to read in front of her so she wouldn't have to look at anything else?”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“In her spare time she scribbled her thoughts, wishes and dreams, life and times. It kept her sane despite her loneliness.”

— Aporva Kala

“Reading helps her escape. It lets her escape to an imaginary world where she can live another life. Where she can forget about her…

— Madeleine Beckett

“She nodded her head in approval and hesitantly shut the book, breathing a reader’s sigh. That wonderful inhale/exhale reaction one does after finishing a…

— Eric Arvin

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and…

— Lisa Genova

“He wanted all of her. Her thoughts, her words, her silences and her stillness.”

— Suanne Laqueur

“She carried a notebook with her everywhere and brimmed with ideas. She often woke in the night and switched on the light to scribble…

— Josephine Moon

“Today she felt especially comforted by the books that climbed the walls. They were a reminder that any knowledge she desired was hers for…

— Liv Constantine

“. . . this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.”

— Gregory Maguire

“She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence…

— Orson Scott Card

“There are so many things to know and learn. She reads...and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.”

— Janice Y.K. Lee