Sabaa Tahir Quotes

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

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

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.

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

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

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

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.

My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

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

I take refuge in my books.

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.

I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

Books are like my one and only joy.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

I have many reasons why I think reading is really important. It provided for me a refuge, especially during difficult times. It provided me with the notion that I could find an ending that was different from what was happening to me at the time.

Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

I am your homegirl, at the end of the day, but I also feel very... outside. So if you're finding solace in feeling outside with me, then we're good to go.

The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy books - I think a lot of fantasy book readers and a lot of readers and writers in general have that experience of isolation.

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.