Sarah Armbrust > Sarah's Quotes

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale