Decrepit Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

— Salvatore Scibona

And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one…

— Jennifer Weiner

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Reading" had always been my lifeline-- an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy...”

— Phyllis Whitney

I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and I forgot…

— Jennifer Egan

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

— Helene Hanff

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness…

— Paul Auster

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left…

— Charlaine Harris

Reading makes me happy.

— Gretchen Rubin

My nervous breakdown last season, when I was bemoaning the fact that I'll never have time to read all the great books I wanted…

— Jon Cryer

When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around…

— Amy Tan

“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year of disarray,…

— Anna Quindlen