Books Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law…

— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“used to write her books.”

— Peter Robinson

“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she…

— Sarah Beth Durst

“It was funny how none of her classes in library science had prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff under suspicion,…

— Jen McKinlay

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.”

— Lorna Landvik

“It was funny how none of her classes in library science has prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff under suspicion,…

— Jenn McKinlay

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Maybe she needed more library time in her life. More hushed time among rows of books waiting to be accidently discovered, rather than deliberately…

— Karen Doornebos

“Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people’s company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal…

— Laura Lippman