Bears Quote by John Boyne

“Did the rhythm of the train on the tracks somehow unravel her and make her behave out of character? Was she altered in transit,…

— John Irving

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline. As she leafs through the…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“They call this an orphan train, children, and you are lucky to be on it. You are leaving behind an evil place, full of…

— Christina Baker Kline

“She resembled Anna Karenina, the kind of woman that if you want to kill, you have to hit with a train.”

— Craig Johnson

“The thing she wanted to give him wasn't easily wrapped. If she could cast a spell, she'd offer him this new, slightly careless version…

— Tracy Guzeman

“A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.”

— Ivor A. Richards

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

— Charles Frazier

“It was one thing to talk about being by yourself, doing important things, but quite another when the opportunity arose. The characters in the…

— Natalie Babbitt

I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject…

— Erin Cressida Wilson

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

— Margaret Atwood

…I noticed you don’t have any self-defense training…” “…I can handle myself just fine.” She stared at me for a long, uncomfortable moment. Finally,…

— Devon Monk