# Quote — Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading

> In our daily lives, where we’re bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

- Author: [Maureen Corrigan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maureen-corrigan.md)
- Book: [Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maureen-corrigan/leave-me-alone-im-reading.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/maureen-corrigan/leave-me-alone-im-reading/in-our-daily

## More from this book

> “Mr. Wonderful isn’t just going to knock on the door,” a girlfriend once said, chiding me. “Why not?” I thought. That’s the way people often meet in books—effortlessly, without guile or strategizing.

p. 95 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maureen-corrigan/leave-me-alone-im-reading/mr-wonderful-isnt.md)

> Such is the power of words, of writing, of books. Words you loved and will always yearn for. They can inspire you with possibilities you otherwise would have never imagined; they can fill your head with misleading fantasies. They can give you back your seemingly seamless past and place it right alongside your chaotic present.
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> “But that only happens in books,” my mother, pretty much immune to the power of the written word, would say.
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> Exactly. That’s why I can’t stop reading them.

p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maureen-corrigan/leave-me-alone-im-reading/such-is-the.md)

> As I reread these Catholic autobiographies and novels, their odd pridefulness became clearer to me. Much of the Catholic juvenilia I so dearly remembered preached a cover story of self-denial along with a covert sermon about the spiritual and worldly superiority that would result from this self-denial. Writhe and shine.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maureen-corrigan/leave-me-alone-im-reading/as-i-reread.md)