Book Quote by Neil Gaiman

“Agnes did the talking, and said it was a sudden fever, and for a woman as pious as she was, lied very well;”

— Margaret Atwood

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

— Moliere

“holy scripture was believed to justify her subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy.…

— Elaine Morgan

“Agnes Shay had the true spirit of a maid. Moistened with dishwater and mild eau de cologne, reared in narrow and sunless bedrooms, in…

— John Cheever

“Agnes Tattle was the only person he’d ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit. It must…

— Martha Woodroof

In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the…

— Libba Bray

“Who says there have been no female prophet on earth, what about your mother.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save…

— Robertson Davies

I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a…

— Walter Martin

“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

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed…

— Virginia Woolf

“Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary—and she herself—might yet have a chance at marriage. While…

— Tracy Chevalier