Bigotry Quote by Sharon Lovejoy

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

— Julia Alvarez

“A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.”

— Carmen DeSousa

“Literature that awakens and inflames feelings is the food of hearts.”

— Ahmed Mayouf

Books wind into the heart.

— William Hazlitt

“When the heart beats, slow down, cherish the moments at present, before it comes to a final halt.”

— Nabeela

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

— Siri Hustvedt

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

— Ajahn Chah

“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.”

— Colum McCann

Awesome piece of literature work can be found mostly in sad and angry hearts

— Kevin Knight

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel…

— Laura Nowlin

“Death of the heart,' the subtitle says, Whose death? And even more important maybe, whose heart?”

— William Goldman

“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise…

— Umberto Eco