Book Quote by Jenn McKinlay

“The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book…

— M.J. Rose

“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and…

— Erica Bauermeister

“She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?”

— Austin Wright

“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like a lover,…

— Cath Staincliffe

“She wanted to own a book so badly and she had thought the copying would do it. But the pencilled sheets did not seem…

— Betty Smith

“She stamped the book and gave it to me. "You bring it back in three weeks." I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth…

— Joan Bauer

“Retrieving the torn letter, she folded it with trembling hands and placed it in her bag that doubled for a purse and portfolio of…

— Anita Estes

“...after our weekly trip to the library, she cleared the top of her dresser and set out her week's reading, stood them on their…

— Eleanor Brown

“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

“She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an…

— Gary Shteyngart

“There wasn’t much left at the end of the month for her favorite luxuries—great clothes and hardback books, but she didn’t mind. She bargain-shopped…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“I loved books—not only the stories they contained, but the feel of them in my hands, the silk of the pages, the words all…

— Laurelin Paige