Book Quote by Jennifer Donnelly

“Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.”

— Trenton Lee Stewart

“In her mind she was free; only her body was captive.”

— Nina Gagen-Torn

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

— Stephanie Hemphill

“The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.”

— Inglath Cooper

“She wasn't talking, though; she hung back, her eyes on the books all around her. I saw her face then, and I recognized something…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination.”

— Lorraine Heath

“She knew where she stood, when she stood among books.”

— M.R. Graham

“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 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

“In the lonely dark she goes again and again to that locked cupboard knowing that she holds the key, and frightened of the self…

— Frederick Anderson

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

— Elizabeth Hunter