Life Quote by Milan Kundera

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Milan Kundera

“She was living in bad sociery; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous…

— Louisa May Alcott

“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

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of…

— Kate Morton

“There were moments when she longed blindly for anything different, anything strange, remote and untried; but the utmost reach of her imagination did not…

— Edith Wharton

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She seemed to exist in a kind of allegory, and having these shapes about her, claimed my interest so strongly, that (as I have…

— Charles Dickens

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“She fancied herself superiour to her surroundings: surely there were higher things to live for. Yet the ugliness of this room was but a…

— Helen Dawes Brown

“Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She had been…

— William Joyce

“The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin