Kristen Barenthaler > Kristen's Quotes

“But true crime was a genre like anything else, with conventions and expectations. It was nonfiction but never wholly objective, always instead reflecting trends or cultural reactions or public desires. I’d been fascinated with it since I was thirteen and had read Helter Skelter for the first time.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

“The gore and glory of the public library’s mystery section along with PBS, Acorn TV, BritBox, and Hallmark Mysteries have sustained my habit ever since. With the mystery genre booming in print and on screen at present, I have had no problem satisfying no my cravings for crime.”
― Marta McDowell, Gardening Can Be Murder

“He looked at her as if she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Like the heroine of a book that was written about the two of them. All those fantasy heroines she’d ever been while lost in a book paled to what Wes made her feel. No book boyfriend could hold a candle to him in this moment.”
― Katherine Garbera, The Bookbinder's Guide to Love

“The list of stupid things smart people have said and thought in the general category of Books is endless.”
― Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out – A Hilarious Guide for Book Lovers and Lifelong Readers

“For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but my dark secret was that really, I preferred the junk.”
― Julie Powell, JULIE & JULIA

“People can enjoy reading and still maintain a healthy attachment to reality, Will, I drawl. I’m not a social pariah because I like fiction. Nobody has ostracized me from the Maple Hills social calendar because I read romance novels.”
― Hannah Grace, Daydream

“Psychologically speaking, they took comfort when their monsters actually looked monstrous.”
― Richard Estep, Dark Spirits: Monsters, Demons and Devils