Arms Quote by Milan Kundera

“They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as…

— Milan Kundera

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”

— Milan Kundera

“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and…

— Erica Bauermeister

There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art,…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart

In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding…

— Milan Kundera

“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she found nothing…

— Louisa May Alcott

“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

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It…

— Kate Jacobs

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith