Books Quote by Libba Bray

“She was a grown young woman when she was overtaken by what she supposed to be the climax of her fate. It was when…

— Kate Chopin

“Looking out over the mezzanine to the endless shelves below, the girl couldn’t help but smile. She’d grown up inside books. No matter how…

— Jay Kristoff

Death was a fiction till love came to reality

— Shubham Joshi

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese

“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living…

— Jill Ker Conway

The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught…

— Gene Wolfe

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

— Ben Vereen

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could…

— Tove Jansson

The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial and film…

— Maurice Renard

“Women brought life but the most important origin stories spoke the real truth, which was that women more often brought death.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

“The woman dying of cancer in The Barracks facing the raw fear of everything in her life disintegrating. The abused adolescent boy in The…

— John McGahern