Books Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“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

“The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my…

— Azar Nafisi

“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work with them...I…

— Clifford Currie Librarian of the Ashmolean Library Oxford

“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in…

— Betty Smith

“She wasn't all that interested, as a reader, in the reader. She was still partial to that increasingly eclipsed entity: the writer. Madeleine had…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life failed me.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

“It reminded me that they [the students] were more than just their scholarly shortcomings and gripes about the workload. Each had a history, a…

— Wally Lamb

“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

“But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a world-class, open-stack…

— Robert Masello

“He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“CHAPTER II—MADELEINE”

— Victor Hugo

“The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I just thought…

— Mike Mullin