Abiding Quote by Nora Roberts

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was a look…

— Patti Callahan Henry

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

“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 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 imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a…

— Tessa Hadley

The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only…

— Claire Messud

“Well, yes, there were quite a lot of books throughout, tumbling out of haphazardly placed bookshelves, stacked beneath chairs, beside beds, even in the…

— Julia Glass

“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

“Private libraries were extraordinary, Lady Elspeth de Moray mused. To have an entire room filled with books--- in one's own house --- seemed quite…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“The apartment was entirely, was only, for her; a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only…

— Claire Messud

“It wasn’t just the quiet solitude of the four thousand square foot space that appealed to her, but the smell of the newspapers, magazines,…

— D.W. Ulsterman