“But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.”

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)
Context: The reviews were excellent and the book quickly went into a second printing. Then one night Ken came home and threw a copy of the book out the window. "You weren’t a writer when I married you, you were an actress," he said angrily. Obviously his colleagues had been riding him because of the attention I was receiving. I was shattered. The next day, he said, "I’ve been rereading your book. There’s love on every page." And then he gave me a beautiful red leather-bound copy of it with the inscription: "From the Critic to the Author." Looking at it I felt a pang. I wondered if it was his admission of what I’d done that he had not.
To my wonder and, it appeared, his annoyance, the book wouldn’t go away.

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: Ain't She Sweet

Attributed to Augustine in &quot;Select Proverbs of All Nations&quot; (1824) by &quot;Thomas Fielding&quot; (John Wade), p. 216 http://www.archive.org/details/selectproverbsa00wadegoog, and later in the form &quot;The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page&quot;, as quoted in 20,000 Quips &amp; Quotes (1995) by Evan Esar, p. 822; this has not been located in Augustine&#x27;s writings, and may be a variant translation of an expression found in Le Cosmopolite (1753) by Fougeret de Monbron: &quot;The universe is a sort of book, whose first page one has read when one has seen only one&#x27;s own country.&quot; <br class="br">Misattributed

Source: All-American Girl

Jerome, to Nagiko
The Pillow Book