Top 26 I Turned The Page Quotes
#1. You must forgive my cousin, Mr. Carroll; his manners are deplorable."
Colonel Fitzwilliam feigned offence and turned to the butler while addressing his cousin's barb. "Mr. Carroll and I have an understanding, don't we, man? He knows I prefer to walk in unannounced.
KaraLynne Mackrory
#2. The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.
Tatiana De Rosnay
#3. That was a page read and turned over; I was busy now with this new page, and when the engine whistled on the grade, this page would be finished and another begun; and so the book of life goes on, page after page and pages without end - when one is young.
Jack London
#4. I'd turned to writing because it offered few escape routes or hiding places; it's harder to lie to yourself on the page than in the world.
Pico Iyer
#5. I caught the rest of it in one of those snob columns in the society section of the paper. I don't read them often, only when I run out of things to dislike ... I threw the paper into the corner and turned on the TV set. After the society page dog vomit even the wrestlers looked good.
Raymond Chandler
#6. Those who did remember probably shrugged off the chill of her memory, turned their heads down to the sports page or up toward the approaching bus. The world is a terrible place, they thought. Bad things happen every day. My bus is late.
Dennis Lehane
#7. I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Nora Ephron
#8. 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
#9. I feel like my life is a book, and someone turned the page before I was ready, and now I can't follow the story.
Rachel Vincent
#10. If there are ever times when I would regret the choice York is making, it is times like these, when life feels like another page waiting to get turned.
Rene Denfeld
#11. I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs dropping and bodies blowing up and war sucking.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#12. Beautiful," she said. I turned the page, and she smiled. It was a picture of the day when we built the human pyramid in my backyard, and I was at the top. The caption read: One day, all these Mexicans built a pyramid to the Sun. "You were my pyramid," she whispered. "All of you.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#14. It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.
Ray Bradbury
#15. I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross the paper.
Sue Monk Kidd
#16. I turned to the page on decorated buttons and tried to ponder their beauty instead of my own loneliness, trying to will myself into being a sociopath.
Heather O'Neill
#17. Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.
Arnold Gingrich
#18. You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.
Hugh Bonneville
#19. All men press, one way or another," she said with mock severity.
"They're still keeping to their book then?"
Denna's expression grew rueful and she sighed. "I used to hope they'd disregard the book with age. Instead I've found they've merely turned a page.
Patrick Rothfuss
#20. That last page turned is a perfect excuse to write a whole new book.
Toni Sorenson
#21. You turned the page, i burned the book.
Anonymous
#22. Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things.
Nicole Krauss
#23. A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.
Garth Nix
#24. They found her with a nearly empty snifter of brandy on the nightstand, a book by her favorite novelist turned to the last page, and a smile on her face.
Dean Koontz
#25. Rip her dress off!" Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Bob hollered, as more pages turned.
Jim Butcher
#26. It is high time we turned to Grammar now," said Doctor Cornelius, in a loud voice. "Will your Royal Highness be pleased to open Pulverulentus Siccus at the fourth page of his 'Grammatical Garden or the Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits?
C.S. Lewis
