Laurie R. King Quotes

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

I take refuge in my books.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as talismans, as sacred objects. I see them as something that will protect me, I suppose, that will save me from things that I feel are threatening. I still think that; it doesn't change. It doesn't change, having money, being successful. So from the very first, if I was hurt in some way, then I would take a book -- which was very difficult for me to buy when I was little -- and I would go up into the hills, and that is how I would assuage my hurt.

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

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

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.

As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.

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.

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.

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.