Beauty Quote by Michael Cunningham

“It was like falling into a dream, and she felt herself getting lost inside the lines, the simplicity of the page a safety net…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“Bookishness, an unfortunate trait for a girl, especially one who is not nice to look at.”

— Claire Holden Rothman

“her mind was wonderfully uncluttered with the nagging irritations of everyday life.”

— John Grisham

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing…

— Virginia Woolf

“On the last page he'd written simply, She's so beautiful. ”

— Lia Habel

“She set her book carefully down, dog-earing a corner of her page with love.”

— Sandhya Menon

“She couldn’t imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book—pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at the colorful…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“And a blank page was quite beautiful on its own, she'd found. There were already so many words, so many voices in the world.…

— Deanna Fei

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.”

— Leigh Hershkovich

“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte