“People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!”

“Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of peoples imagination.”

“Its very silly, she said, but I go on with it in spite of myself. Im afraid Im too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I cant read it.”

“I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, Ah me! I wish I were a widow! Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her d...”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”

“Semua orang pernah patah hati. All you have to do is move on.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”

“If you only write when youre inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but youll never be a novelist because youre going to have to make your word count today and those words arent going to wait fo...”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”