Laurie Gilmore > Quotes

“She wasn’t so much afraid of dying as she was of forgetting to live her life. Somewhere along the way, she’d forgotten to figure out who she was or what she wanted to be when she grew up.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“He was summer and she was fall. He was adventure and she was comfort. But right now, on the cusp between the two seasons, in this liminal space they’d carved out for themselves, they fit just right.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Somewhere along the way, she’d forgotten to figure out who she was or what she wanted to be when she grew up. She’d graduated college all shiny and optimistic about her future with her nose ring intact, and then spent the next seven years having her soul sucked out one ten-hour day at a time.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Reading was probably safer than hiking, anyway.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“I always bring a book, just in case.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I was prepared to read every damn book in that bookstore just to spend more time with you.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Maybe she hadn’t needed to change her life, maybe she’d just needed to change how she saw her life. How she saw herself.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“He didn’t have a ton of friends; he probably shouldn’t murder this one.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“The lies we tell ourselves are often stronger than the truth. They worm their way into our hearts and our minds until they are all we see, all we believe.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Christmas Tree Farm

“The lights were still up at the end of January, because this was her place and she made the rules.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Christmas Tree Farm

“She wasn’t so much afraid of dying as she was of forgetting to live her life.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“You brought a book.’ ‘Of course I did.’ His mouth tipped up in the corner, unable to resist the little smirk on her face. ‘Of course you did.’ ‘I always bring a book, just in case.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I've loved you since I saw how many tiny pumpkins you could carry in your arms.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“It was the magic of the flannel.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Somewhere along the way, she’d forgotten to figure out who she was or what she wanted to be when she grew up.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Because what more did one need besides good friends, good books, and the occasional cinnamon bun?”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Jeanie Ellis had never killed a man before, but tonight might be the night.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“But first, coffee.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Love is a funny thing,’ the mayor went on. ‘It's not always big or loud or over the top. Most of the time, it’s quiet and unassuming. It’s a shared cup of coffee on a rainy day or reading side by side together every night. It’s finding the person who gets you. The person who will have your back through it all. ‘Your person,’ he added”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Gingerbread Bakery

“Were people ever more vulnerable than when they were unapologetically excited about something? He didn’t think so.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Christmas Tree Farm

“I am not! I just prefer to be inside. I’m an inside cat.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“He stopped in front of the old fence that kept Harry Styles, his rescue alpaca, safely out of the driveway.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Will you be my best friend?’ the fox asked the rabbit. ‘But we’re so different,’ said the rabbit. ‘That’s why I like you.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“The book club was going to have a field day.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“She liked relationships like she liked her chicken wings, hot and fast.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Strawberry Patch Pancake House

“Hazel wasn’t her job or her curls or her cute button-up blouses. She was the tart spark of blueberries on his tongue, she was salt air and rainy days, she was the perfect book. She was kisses and secret smiles. She was everything. He just needed her.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“There was history in this house. It was worn in like the perfect pair of old jeans”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“She laughed and it sounded like hope.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Christmas Tree Farm

“These are chickens, right? They’re weird.’ ‘Silkie chickens,’ he said, striding toward her, a sort of shell-shocked look on his face. ‘Ooh ... fancy,’ she teased.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Now he had to figure out how to live in the same town as her and not lose his mind pining after her. Because while Annie wasn’t his anymore, he would always be hers.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Gingerbread Bakery