Book Quotes About Friendship
Friendship gets fewer famous lines than love, and better ones. Quotes about friends from Austen, Montgomery, Twain, Dumas and others, with who says each...
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Lines from literature gathered around one idea: solitude, the sea, time, friendship and reading itself. Each collection pulls from many books, cites every quote to its work and chapter, and explains the scene it belongs to. A good place to start if you are looking for a quote about something rather than by someone.
Book Quotes About Time
Stopped clocks, lost years and the hour that will not come. What novelists and poets wrote about time, from Dickens's Miss Havisham to Proust's...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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