Anna Quindlen

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#journey #reading #travel #change

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bookshelves #building #children #consists #content

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#reading #travel #change

those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers... ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bookstores #change

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#mourning #death

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#business

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#change

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#inspirational

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#family #siblings #family

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#change