Angela M > Angela M 's Quotes

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Books," he said, "are like mushrooms. They grow when you are not looking. Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest leads to another interest, and this compounds into third. Next, you have so much interest there is no space in closet.”
― Tom Rachman, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs