Poppy Alexander > Quotes

“There was a book to cure ever ill and solve every problem that was what Mimi had always thought. It was like a tiny sanctuary providing a balm for all of life’s challenges.”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit,”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“Sometimes we play tricks on ourselves. We find excuses to hide from our feelings because we don’t want to see the truth for what it really is.”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“He too preferred to quietly watch, just like her. She saw this now, not as aloofness, but—in his case—the calm reserve of the quietly, supremely confident.”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“Public libraries might be on the wane,”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“will shed no more tears, like a spoilt child. For whatever happens we have had what we have had. No one can take that from us.”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“Manga is a highly respected form of storytelling. Calling it comics doesn’t do it justice. I’ll sort her out with some other graphic novels, too. It’s all stories. It all counts.”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“the latest Harry Potter,”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

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― Poppy Alexander

“You know what? I have several boys on the autistic spectrum,” mused Amanda. “They do love a list! One of them has memorized all the local bus routes”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“bathroom looked as if it occupied a room meant originally as a third bedroom and”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“There’s a decent-sized colony up there,”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“Grief is the price we pay for love,”
― Poppy Alexander, 25 Days 'Til Christmas

“Not surprising at all. Reading will never go out of fashion,”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“as Ms. du Maurier tells us herself,” he said, opening the book and reading, “‘I will shed no more tears, like a spoilt child. For whatever happens we have had what we have had. No one can take that from us.”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

“traditional librarian skills increasingly obsolete.”
― Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library