Books Quote by Rachel Cusk

“Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.”

— Trenton Lee Stewart

“To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had…

— Henry James

“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

“The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.”

— Inglath Cooper

“Her self, then, was represented in her books.”

— Claire Messud

“She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it. Of communing at last with another.”

— Amanda Coplin

“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.”

— Lorna Landvik

“Books made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone.”

— Cassandra clare

“I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further, they seemed…

— Julian Barnes

“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were thousands who…

— Parents' National Education Union

“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

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves.”

— Virginia Woolf