Books Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was distasteful to her to read, that it, to follow the reflection of other people's lives. She…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was distasteful to her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of other people’s lives. She…

— Tolstoy

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“Adults were always quick to tell her how much she looked like her mother, and how little like her father. Though Anna thought that…

— Antonia Michaelis

“Anna… envied Joan’s deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she’d been begotten by…

— Nevada Barr

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many…

— Robin McKinley

“Anna is the sort of woman who writers write about, Tom. Somewhere in the third act, women like her save characters like you and…

— Matthew Norman

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and…

— Francesca Block

“I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you…

— Joy Cowley

“She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me,…

— Julie Metz

“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