Books Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer Download Open image ““I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.”” — Mary Ann Shaffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“I suppose I do have a suitor, but I'm not really used to him yet. He's terribly charming and he plies me with delicious… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The way I think, the way I act, most of that's because of the books I've read. ” — Andrea K. Höst Copy Share Image
“Oh, it doesn't get me. I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I read books like I read people. I look past the imperfections and at the heart behind them.” — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
“I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.” — Martin Booth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his prey, and I'm certain that he wouldn't think twice about eating an innocent bystander. I'll watch him closely at the next full moon. He's asked me to go dancing tomorrow--perhaps I should wear a high collar.… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share
Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then. — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world, but they… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“A sunny nature? A light heart? I have never been so insulted. Light-hearted is a short step from witless in my book. A cackling… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs. — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right - he'll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions. Cats is… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Thousands of those men and boys died here, and I have recently learned that their inhuman treatment was the intended policy of Himmler. He… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
