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“That which didn't kill them made them stranger.”
“As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.”
“There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.”
“We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books”
“This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't itso few people, so many opinions?”
“This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it—so few people, so many opinions?”
“For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.”
“Sara couldn't help but think that she had somehow missed the moment when life was meant to begin. For a long time she had simply drifted through it, reading. While everyone around her was teenaged,...”
“Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.”
“It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.”
“She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there we...”
“...nowadays, everyone seemed to be dreaming of absolutely everything. Traveling and loving and having a fantastic career and a happy family, all while being thin, beautiful, popular, and in touch w...”
“One of the most difficult things when you were trying to navigate the world of books was dealing with all the unreliable authors. They were so unbelievably tricky to keep track of. An author might ...”
