“Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages…”

— Rebecca Wells, book Little Altars Everywhere

Source: Little Altars Everywhere

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American writer 1952

Elizabeth Peters (1927–2013) American author and egyptologist

Source: Houses of Stone

“Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Story of Us

“I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Context: With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.