Books Quote by Jay Kristoff

“Looking out over the mezzanine to the endless shelves below, the girl couldn’t help but smile. She’d grown up inside books. No matter how…

— Jay Kristoff

“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

“As long as the book is read, people would die for it. She had been wrong to wait, wrong to think a safer time…

— Ginger Garrett

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her…

— Michael Ondaatje

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness…

— Casey Fisher

“She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on…

— D.H. Lawrence

And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“She was left to beg for mercy only to burn in torment again the next day. She was a weed struggling through cracks of…

— Airicka Phoenix

“This is not a story for the faint of heart; this is the story of one woman's very real struggle through a world against…

— S.L. Jennings

“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

“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and rage. All…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“The girl would grow up marked by tragedy and, when she was twenty, would use her own suffering to help alleviate that of others.…

— Paulo Coelho