Books Quote by Ilsa Madden-Mills

“Somehow she could always think better when all her hair was out of her face. Stupid, but true.”

— Melinda Metz

“Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me.”

— Kate Chisman

“I shook my head once and caught her glance, the wise and sullen look of a not quite adolescent girl who knew too much.”

— Dorothy Allison

“She could tell me a thousand things with her eyebrows alone, this girl. Sometimes I wanted to shave them off just to spite her.”

— L.J. Shen

“I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I'd just met the kind of girl books are written about. There was no one…

— Tarryn Fisher

“No thanks; I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.”

— Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer

“She looked down at her book and traced the letters of the title with her finger. "Why do you think I like to get…

— Brittany Geragotelis

“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She wasn't talking, though; she hung back, her eyes on the books all around her. I saw her face then, and I recognized something…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“With the wind blowing through the windows, we all had to remove our caps. My hair was whipping around my face. I heard a…

— Rachel Hawthorne

“I'd thought of her with unblinking eyes, moving always, across the pages of opened books with rapid precision, but as she stood in front…

— Amber Dermont

“A book from a nearby shelf tumbled to the ground and the pages rustled a moment before settling. I bit my lip, debating. If…

— Lani Woodland