Books Quote by Tessa Dare Download Open image “Dedication: For all the girls who walk and read at the same time.” — Tessa Dare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Dedication Girl Walks
As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
If there is an amateur reader still left in the world—or anybody who just reads and runs—I ask him or her, with untellable affection… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book to inspire young women to be brave and believe in themselves.” — Sherine Calloway Copy Share Image
Reading to our children and our grandchildren is something we can all try to do every day of the year. Not only does it… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
I tell this to my girls all the time: This journey we're on is a once - in - a - lifetime opportunity. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“That life can be a rich place, comprised of the highbrow and the lowdown, the casual and the ambitious, private reading and public sharing.… — Roger Sutton Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“As for reading, I doubt whether she did much better by the sea-side than she had done in the town. Men and women say… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“This explains so much," she said, clucking her tongue in mother-hen fashion. "You're compensating for this withered appendage." Withered appendage? What the devil was she talking about? He shook his head, trying to clear it. Colin's dire predictions of shriveled twigs and dried currants rattled in his skull. Wide awake now, he fought to sit up, wrestling the sheets. "Listen,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share
“You think a few features scattered on your face make you plain? I am ugly to the core. All England knows it. And after… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“I’d be more than happy to let you survey my physical perfection in its entirety. But only if I get to see you, too.”… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Words for everyday showers of prettiness, and the kind of misty loveliness that disappears whenever you try to grasp it. Beauty that’s heralded by impressive thunder, but turns out to be all flash. And beyond all these, there’d be this word . . . a word that even the most grizzled, wizened elders might have uttered twice in their lifetimes,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share
“ The captain? Sophia stood staring numbly after him. Had he just said he’d introduce her to the captain? Of someone else was the captain, then who on earth was this man? One thing was clear. Whoever he was, he had her trunks. And he was walking away. Cursing under her breath, Sophia picked up her skirts and trotted after… — Tessa Dare Copy Share
“Madeline stood before him in a gown of rich, emerald-green silk. The low-cut bodice did miraculous things for her bosom, and the vibrant color… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“He stood in the doorway to a side chamber, bared to the waist and dripping. He propped one shoulder against the doorway and clutched… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“And you claim to be feeling this way. Floatish. Singsong-ish. About me.” She sighed. “Yes.” “That’s absurd.” “I know, but I can’t seem to… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“No, of course she didn't say it. But there is no other reason she should have called, except to pave the way for her… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“And there it was. The prim face of censure he’d been seeking. A strange sense of satisfaction descended on him. Divine justice, perhaps. Other men, better men, confessed their sins to priests and saints, but Gray had chosen for his confessor this governess. The most beautiful woman he’d ever set eyes on, in all his years of chasing pleasure from… — Tessa Dare Copy Share
“Another sketch-this one of Gabriel-hung on the all above the water cask. It swiveled gently on a single tack; or rather, the paper hung plump with gravity while the whole ship swiveled around it. She’d captured Gabriel’s toothy, inoffensive grin and the devilish gleam in his eye, and the effect of the paper’s constant, subtle rocking was to make the… — Tessa Dare Copy Share
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
