Book Quote by Nickolas Butler

“There are so many things to know and learn. She reads...and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.”

— Janice Y.K. Lee

“She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the…

— Martin Edwards

“She can't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture-that we keep them because…

— Paula Marantz Cohen

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two strangers as…

— Deborah Meyler

“We were supposed to be studying literature together. Instead I wanted to take her off the shelf, crack her open, and read the shit…

— Kendall Ryan

“I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you…

— Joy Cowley

“...after our weekly trip to the library, she cleared the top of her dresser and set out her week's reading, stood them on their…

— Eleanor Brown

“It's more like she left some of herself behind in the walls and the floors and the books, like there's something she wants to…

— Marie Bostwick

“Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into…

— Emily Croy Barker

“She’s read many books.”

— Kate Elliott

“She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the room of her house, and when she glanced over at this…

— Michael Cunningham