Rachel Cohn Quotes

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Of all things I liked books best.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

Of course I loved books more than people.

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people.

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.

I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I'd sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.