Hallie > Hallie's Quotes

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“I promise, I will not let you die without being kissed.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice