24 Quotes by Charlie Lovett

She read the letter again and tried to imagine what it would feel like to be so desperate for a response that you would drop all sense of dignity and propriety and dash from the house at the first sight of the postman.

So are you lonely, or just a loner?

Anyway, a man who buys a woman a book this nice is looking to be more than just an acquaintance.

Jane Austen never married,” he said in frustration. “She entered the male-dominated field of novel writing and her female heroines are strong, independent characters. Just what do you imagine a feminist in a rural English village in the late eighteenth century looks like?

You’ve spent most of your life in hiding.′ said Dr. Strayer. ‘Your secret lair is the only place you feel truly safe. When you were a child it was your room where you’d hide so you didn’t have to interact with your parents. In college it was the rare-books room; once you married Amanda, it was your basement book room. You bury yourself in these places, Peter. You avoid life there.

A literary mystery, a damsel in distress, and his rival deposed. If that doesn’t get him here then he’s not much of a knight in shining armor.

I was always scared to meet people. Scared or maybe lazy.

The gifts of God are rarely what we expect.

King Arthur’s Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch... it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about.