Books Quote by Maya Angelou

“He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent…

— Nadeem Aslam

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being…

— Terry Pratchett

“For the first time, I smelled her. I can't describe the smell. Flowery, yet somehow musty, like a beautiful woman with the soul of…

— Caris O'Malley

“She was something he knew he had missed: the flower of life.”

— Edith Wharton

“she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her.”

— Virginia Woolf

“All men should give books instead of flowers.”

— Amber Scott

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“I'd keep your beauty timeless. like a flower pressed in a book, yes I wouldn't let it fade Folded in the chapters of my…

— Richard L. Ratliff

“I watched her shuffle around, reading tags and smelling flowers, laughing every time or smiling nice—what flowers were supposed to make you do.”

— Jennifer Gooch Hummer

“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into…

— Jane Austen

“She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid…

— Kate Morton