Books Quote by Phil Elverum

“With winter the feeling had deepened. I would see a neighbor running along the sidewalk in front of the house, training, I imagined, for…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“As I lay in the dark, listening to the distant rush of the waterfall, I hoped that part of me would always be nine…

— Hazel Gaynor

“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were…

— Steven Millhauser

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Half asleep and half awake, I became lost in a deep span of my version of a perfect world. A place I wanted so…

— Katlyn Charlesworth

“I spent the rest of my day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned…

— Amy Plum

“When I was young I studied in the west suburb, with the birds of the forest as my only neighbours. I would open a…

— Wang Chieh

“It was a time in my life when many things bored me deeply and I hungered for beauty and those realms of pure elation…

— Pat Conroy

“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A…

— Beth Pattillo

“I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and myths that…

— J. Don Cook

“It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another, as if…

— Donna Tartt