Books Quote by John Galsworthy

“There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come…

— Nicholas Carr

“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I turned to books for comfort.”

— Laura Bush

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

— Trenton Lee Stewart

“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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

— Inglath Cooper

“See, that's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.”

— Kristen Ashley

“...books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“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

“Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.”

— Anonymous

“Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.”

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.”

— Elizabeth von Arnim