Books Quote by Thea Harrison

“and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever…

— Charles Dickens

“He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that we keep…

— Anonymous

“I liked his bookstore manner. He was curious but not entirely focused, interested yet nonchalant, veering between a Look what I've found and Of…

— André Aciman

“...I had decided to tidy up a bit. Actually it hadn't really been a choice. The situation had got out of hand, particularly because…

— Gianrico Carofiglio

“I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were…

— Charles Bukowski

“He guessed he wouldn’t mind being a book. Books just did what they were made to do, like stars just shining out in case…

— Cynthia Voigt

“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing…

— Sara Levine

“Well, he began, since we're talking about books, there is a book in my story.”

— Alexis M. Smith

“He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“I've taken over the guest room wardrobe too- plus, I've arranged all my shoes on the bookshelves on the landing. (I put the books…

— Sophie Kinsella

“Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.”

— John Steinbeck

“He can’t remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says whenever visitors…

— Jenny Erpenbeck