She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: reading-books english-literature majors
Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.
Helen HumphreysTags: reading time loneliness reading-books
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Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
John PiperTags: books reading-books john-piper
In this way, I was able to place my own concerns aside and curl myself up in the cocoon of somebody else's imagination. My life was suspended - I was in neither one place nor the other.
Kate KerriganTags: imagination reading books book reading-books
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?
Shannon HaleTags: books characters plot reading-books
You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: art reading books arts literature funny book culture arts-and-humanities reading-books enjoyment humanities taking-your-time funny-book-quotes easy-going enjoying-art i-love-art i-love-books i-love-reading i-love-to-read laid-back
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay?
"I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.
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She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything really interesting absorbed her so that she never knew what was going on about her. The little girls to whose houses she went visiting had found this out, and always hid away their story-books when she was expected to tea. If they didn't do this, she was sure to pick one up and plunge in, and then it was no use to call her, or tug at her dress, for she neither saw nor heard anything more, till it was time to go home.
Susan CoolidgeTags: reading books readers reading-books
La lumière est dans le livre. Ouvrez le livre tout grand. Laissez-le rayonner, laissez-le faire.
Victor HugoTags: reading-books
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