Quotes of: Readings Keyword

If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you.

Twisted 9

• “…it is easy to read that this game is more than just a game, it is a culmination of a group of coaches and boys on a mission to not just experience, but rather to achieve something that only they believe is truly possible.

Team Of One: We Believe

After that came her biggie: a triple murder--her dealer, the dealer's sister, and the dealer's sister's boyfriend. Reading that made me feel a little funny that we'd fucked and I'd loved her.

Tenth of December

My dearest Pudding pie" I read aloud. "Yes, my little turnip?" "Hilarious," I muttered. "If you ever call me anything of the sort again we shall have words.

Threshold

An author named Arthur Arthurson would write about art, love, and road kill in Kenya. And I’d read him because I’m a meat eater and car enthusiast.

This Book Title is Invisible

The calligraphy reads, “Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.” Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha, or practicing meditation is nothing other than studying ourselves.

The Pocket Pema Chodron

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost

Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman.

Putting Boys on the Ledge

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

The Penultimate Peril

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins

You’re only as happy as your least happy child,’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.

A Place Like This

It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

Talulla Rising

Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Leon reads aloud from an article in the about voting to select a national flower. Leon votes for dandelions. Joseph and Clyde vote for grass.

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study

Sometimes I’ll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I’ll flip the book over to look at the cover to see who wrote it, only to discover that it feels like it was written for me because it was written by me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A book on war is useful, but it’d be even more useful if it could shoot bullets. Or stop them. Or stop illiteracy. Oh, If only Congress could read what they sign into law.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Like my grandpa, who dropped out of school to farm, I have a 4th grade education. Of course, I have a college degree, too. Both require the same reading level.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I wish I had a crystal bowl to see into the future with. Every morning I would eat my cereal out of it while I read tomorrow's newspaper.

This Book is Not FOR SALE