„Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point … I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace (everyday) face; carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of bright vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.“

— Jane Austen

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„"Maybe you should try looking a little less smug about what you did last night.""I do not look smug. Well, no more than usual.""Please, I can read your face like a very open, very pornographic book. I wish I couldn't."“
— Cassandra Clare
„Please,” Alec said, pulling out his stele. “I can read your face like a very open, very pornographic book. I wish I couldn’t.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.“
— Jane Austen
„When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times…“
— Elvis Presley