Book quotes, chosen by Lucy Levine
Sometimes it was still light when she went to bed, but as the light was of such very great interest to her she would put down her book just to watch it fade, and change colour, and finally become opaque and uninteresting.
Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
Latest Essays And Quote Collections
Leo Tolstoy Quotes From War and Peace, Anna Karenina and More
From the most famous first line in Russian fiction to Pierre's questions about how to live. Tolstoy quotes in public-domain English translations, each with book, part and chapter.
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, From the Tales and Poems
Beyond "Nevermore": Poe's most quoted lines from his tales, poems and essays, each found in the text, with what the narrator is doing when...
Emily Dickinson Quotes: Lines From Her Poems
Dickinson compressed whole arguments into a few lines. The lines people quote, and the poems they come from, as printed in the early public-domain...
Henry David Thoreau Quotes From Walden and Beyond
Thoreau wrote for people who suspect they are living wrong. The essential lines from Walden, Civil Disobedience and Walking, each with the chapter or...
Mark Twain Quotes, Checked Against His Books
Half the Mark Twain quotes online are not by Mark Twain. These are: lines from Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Pudd'nhead Wilson and his travel...
Oscar Wilde Quotes Beyond Dorian Gray: The Plays, Essays and Letters
Wilde's best lines are spread across his comedies, essays and De Profundis. Quotes from The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, The Decay...
Did Mark Twain Say “The Two Most Important Days in Your Life”?
Twain attracts more misattributions than almost any writer. This line is not in his books. What a search of his collected works shows, and...
Find the line you half remember
Lucy's own quote collection, plus quote collections by author and theme.
All Essays And Quote Collections →