The Reading List Quotes

“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“...sometimes when you really like a book, you need to read it again! To relive what you loved and find out what you missed before. Books always change as the person who reads them changes too.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“I guess books say different things to different people.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“These are the books that brought me closer to myself, that shaped me and my world -- I hope they'll bring you light and joy and, if you ever miss me, you'll find me within their pages.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“She didn't remember the story, she was terrible with details, but she remembered the way it made her feel. It had this kind of warm, magical quality about it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“There was something magical in that—in sharing a world you have loved; allowing someone to see it through the same pair of spectacles you saw it through yourself.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Books always change as the person who reads them changes too.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“It’s good to be kind to people, especially the people you love, because you never know what it’s like to walk in their shoes until one day you do. And by then, it’s often too late to make a real difference.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Books show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“...books, they had the power to heal.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“It was strange, the idea that this book wasn't just for him, it was for everyone. All these people who had taken it out before him, people who would take it out after him. Every reader, unknowingly connected in some small way.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Despite all the books she’d read in her lifetime, finding the words to say I love you, to the person she had spent the happiest years of her life with, seemed to be the hardest thing in the world.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“The library isn’t just about books.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Sometimes the sky is grey
Sometimes the day’s grey too
But behind every grey sky
There’s always some blue”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“I think you can read whatever you want into anything. That is the point of books.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“He can feel the story take control of his mind, pulling him away. His own thoughts, his worries, that voice, begin to buzz at the back of his mind, and eventually they become nothing but white noise.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“They were all her favourite books, the books she had grown up with, the books that had found her at the right time, that had given her comfort when she needed it, had given her an escape, an opportunity to live beyond her life, an opportunity to love more powerfully, a chance to open up and let people in.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Zadie Smith, White Teeth Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah Katherine Heiny, Standard Deviation Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column Ali Smith, There But For The These books found me at just the right time in my life. I can remember each of them so vividly, I remember the characters as though they were friends, sometimes even family, I can remember exactly where I was and how I felt when I turned that final page. They’ve stayed with me ever since.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Just in case you need it: To Kill a Mockingbird Rebecca The Kite Runner Life of Pi Pride and Prejudice Little Women Beloved A Suitable Boy”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“She noticed how this book was allowing her to step into two worlds: the world she was in right now, beside her mum, in her house, the air muggy from the heat of the day, and another world, the world of two children, Scout and her older brother, Jem, who lived somewhere called Maycomb, a small town in Alabama, where they'd play outside, being foolish, being . . . children. She would do anything to see life through a child's eyes again; a time when life wasn't so serious, and scary neighbors were nothing more than a fun pastime, and family just meant home.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“It was strange how, once childhood left, your parents became simply human, with fears and worries just like your”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Because for a moment, he’d forgotten that now he was an old man with aching joints. For a moment, he had felt completely and utterly brand new.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“A seventeen-year-old girl shouldn't need to be strong all the time.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“After she asked her mother, in a moment of madness, whether the photo bothered her, Leilah had said: "No. It was a happy time, and I can't regret happiness.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“know this isn’t your usual thing, but I read To Kill a Mockingbird when I was twenty-one and going through a hard time—it taught me a lot back then, and I got to see the world through the eyes of a child once more, the good and the bad. It was an escape for me; I threw myself into the world, into the injustices, into the characters, and it was the respite I needed from my own life—for it helped me care deeply about someone else’s. I hope it can be an escape, a bit of respite, for you too. Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“It’s like, I don’t know, no one’s trying to be someone they’re not in a library.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“It was a happy time, and I can't regret happiness.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“To Kill a Mockingbird was burning in his hand: read me, read me, read me.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“While the reading list in the book belongs to one character, there are so many more books I wanted to include, books that have changed the way I’ve thought about writing, people, the world. Books that inspired me, moved me, taught me more than any school lesson could. Books that made me want to be a reader and eventually a writer. This is my reading list. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Zadie Smith, White Teeth Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah Katherine Heiny, Standard Deviation Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column Ali Smith, There But For The These books found me at just the right time in my life. I can remember each of them so vividly, I remember the characters as though they were friends, sometimes even family, I can remember exactly where I was and how I felt when I turned that final page. They’ve stayed with me ever since.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List