Readerly Life Quotes

#1. Adversity is the test of strength in every soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

Kevin Plank

#3. His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone. In our youth, he'd been a strict master lording over my lessons while tender with the flower of his heart, my sister Anabine. Ana, the lovely, blooming jewel. Zyndel, she of clever wit.

Jamie Wyman

#4. He linked his fingers with hers. And because he had used it when he'd hurt her, he balanced that out by using it now. "A ghra."
"Huh?" A line appeared between her brows. "Is that Gaelic again?"
"Yes." He brought their joined fingers to his lips. "Love. My love.

J.D. Robb

#5. As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Umberto Eco

#6. For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.

Henry Hazlitt

#7. I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.

Bruce Eric Kaplan