Books Quote by Susan Power

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had…

— Robin McKinley

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was…

— Robert Goolrick

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many…

— Robin McKinley

“Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.”

— Doris Lessing

“But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one…

— Ian McEwan

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did…

— Tim Lebbon

“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

“Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself--except…

— Willa Cather

“She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even…

— Candice Proctor

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put…

— Virginia Woolf

“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she…

— Sarah Beth Durst