Quotes About Reading and Books, From the Books Themselves
Many famous “quotes about reading” have no source anyone can find. These ones do: what novelists actually wrote about reading, with the book and chapter.
Book Quotes About the Sea
From Moby-Dick to The Awakening, the sea in literature is rarely just water. The lines that make the point, cited to the chapter.
Book Quotes About Solitude
Thoreau, Dickinson, Melville and the Brontës on being alone, which is not always the same thing as being lonely. Each line with its book and chapter.
Virginia Woolf Quotes From Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
Woolf’s sentences are hard to cut down to a quote without losing the turn in the middle. The lines that survive it, with the section of each novel they come from.
Oscar Wilde’s Best Lines From The Picture of Dorian Gray, in Context
Most of the novel’s famous epigrams belong to Lord Henry, and the book does not take his side. Who says each line, in which chapter, and what happens next.
Jane Austen Quotes, With the Chapter Each One Comes From
Austen’s best lines are funnier in context. The quotes worth knowing from Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, each with its chapter, so you can read the scene it comes from.