Books Quote by Rabih Alameddine

“I wasn’t a lonely kid—I was good at being alone. I’d read books, play with the toy that I had, make up imaginary worlds.…

— Trevor Noah

“Sometimes I wanted to dance and laugh with my friends until midnight, and sometimes I wanted to screen all calls and hide away with…

— Michelle Dalton

“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to…

— Cheryl Strayed

“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult…

— Cheryl Strayed

“She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.”

— Hilda Van Stockum

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with…

— Joshua Slocum

“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on…

— Alan Bradley

“One time, I spent six months back in time. I fell in love with a boy who had no obligation to love a world…

— Katherine Locke

“If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.”

— Maggie Osborne

“This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the…

— Kandi Dougherty

“I was a girl, I learned, who got what she wanted, but not without sadness, not without cutting a swath of destruction so wide…

— Anton DiSclafani

“I thought I was just catching up to everyone else, but it turned out I overshot the mark and had begun to launch myself…

— Clive Treadwell