Alex Quote by Jena Leigh

“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

“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.”

— Elizabeth Hunter

“I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you…

— Joy Cowley

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing…

— Virginia Woolf

“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two strangers as…

— Deborah Meyler

“Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into…

— Emily Croy Barker

“do not look for me in other people.   i do not exist elsewhere   and when you meet another, do not mention my…

— Gretchen Gomez

“We were supposed to be studying literature together. Instead I wanted to take her off the shelf, crack her open, and read the shit…

— Kendall Ryan

“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

“I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and started talking…

— Kathryn Davis

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

— Jane Hamilton