Charlie Lovett Quotes & Sayings

This is the first book edition. Without the mold it would have cost me twice as much." "You've — Charlie Lovett

Students didn't even read books anymore, thought Arthur. They dispensed with design and layout and cover art and illustrations and reduced reading to nothing but a stream of text in whatever font and size they chose. Reading without books, thought Arthur, was like playing cricket without dressing in white. It could be done, but why? — Charlie Lovett

Unlikely is not the same as impossible, — Charlie Lovett

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. — Charlie Lovett

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

Scrooge replied that the calendar was an arbitrary governor of a man's life and that the new year began anew whenever one decided to live his life in a new way. — Charlie Lovett

said Sophie, "and I'll give you a call." "I'll be waiting by the phone," said Winston. "You carry your phone in your pocket," she teased. "Yes, well, that proves it, then." - — Charlie Lovett

That must be something to discover a book that nobody's ever heard of or everybody thought was lost."
"It's every bibliophile's dream," said Francis, and Peter knew in a second that it was his own. — Charlie Lovett

If you mail a rare stamp it becomes worthless. If you drink a rare bottle of wine, you're left with some recycling. But if you read a rare book it's still there, it's still valuable, and it's achieved the full measure of it's being. A book is to read, whether it's worth five pounds or five thousand pounds — Charlie Lovett

But though that love was engraved on her heart, she did not have the words to explain its nature. — Charlie Lovett

The best way to learn about books, ... is to spend time with them, talk about them, defend them. — Charlie Lovett

AS A CHILD, I had an unquenchable thirst for novels," said Jane, — Charlie Lovett

They did not speak of the future; they merely lived in the present. It was a perfect summer. — Charlie Lovett

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. — Charlie Lovett

It was as if a part of her mind dwelt in him and a part of his mind dwelt in her, and when she was separated from him a part of herself was missing. — Charlie Lovett

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

Novel writing seems an altogether less intimidating occupation when one considers that one only need produce a small tale. — Charlie Lovett

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. — Charlie Lovett

The gifts of God are rarely what we expect. — 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. — Charlie Lovett

Every muscle in his body seemed to be crying out to him--- she thinks this is a date; don't lead her on. Yet in spite of this, Peter found himself saying, ' I like your hair — Charlie Lovett

Like a subscription to a magazine, thought Peter. The period during which I am allowed to be happy has expired. — Charlie Lovett

He only kissed her and she kissed him and her knees went weak and her heart raced and she thought for a moment that she saw fireworks. — Charlie Lovett

He embraced the ache. It reminded him that Amanda was real. For the first time in his life, he knew exactly what he was aching for. — Charlie Lovett

I embellish the truth of their lives with the lies of my imagination. — Charlie Lovett

...he pulled on his coat and stepped into the darkness for a walk up to the village shop. He found walking to the shop once or twice a day to buy food as needed a comforting routine. — Charlie Lovett

What this committee needs, what this media center needs, is a good dose of Jeeves."
"I'm sorry," said Mr. Peabody, a mathematics lecturer who sat hunched at the far end of the table taking the minutes. "How do you spell that?"
"Is it possible," said Arthur, raising both his shoulders and his voice, "that we are working in a university where lecturers are not aware of the identity of one Reginald Jeeves, the gentleman's personal gentleman and the personal gentleman's gentleman? What has happened to cultural literacy, my fellow members of the Advisory Committee for the Media Center? This sort of ignorance is exactly what needs addressing. What I mean, Mr. Peabody, when I say that we need a dose of Jeeves, is that we need quiet and reasoned wisdom that leads to prompt and directed action. — Charlie Lovett

What he wanted was to find that world-within-the-world where he could be himself by himself. — Charlie Lovett

The ladies in my family have always known what to do in a roomful of rare books. — Charlie Lovett

A good book is like a good friend. It will stay with you for the rest of your life. When you first get to know it, it will give you excitement and adventure, and years later it will provide you with comfort and familiarity. And best of all, you can share it with your children or your grandchildren or anyone you love enough to let into its secrets. — Charlie Lovett

So are you lonely, or just a loner? — Charlie Lovett