Ellery Adams > Quotes

“I prefer cinnamon twists over scones because they’re easier to eat while I’m reading. That’s my main priority when it comes to food. Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane!”
― J.B. Stanley, Chili Con Corpses

“Stories are just like people. If you don’t approach them with an open mind and a healthy dose of respect, they won’t reveal their hidden selves to you. In that event, you’ll miss out on what they have to offer. You’ll walk through life an empty husk instead of a vibrant kaleidoscope of passion, wisdom, and experience.”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“… Becoming a reader is a change for the better. Trust me. No one has ever lost by becoming addicted to stories – to the lessons learned by those who possess enough courage to put pen to paper.”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book & Scone Society

“Every time I reread a favorite book, I’d find something new in it. Not because the story changed, but because I did.”
― Ellery Adams, The Whispered Word

“It’s always that way when you’re looking at books. An hour goes by in a minute: you don’t know where the hell the time went. —John Dunning”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“If it wants a soul, then yes. Every town needs a bookstore.”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“Stories don’t change much across continents and centuries. Hearts are broken. Pride is wounded. Souls wander too far from home and become lost. The wrong roads are taken. The incorrect choice is made. Stories echo with loneliness. Grief. Longing. Redemption. Forgiveness. Hope. And love.” Now it was her turn to point at the bookstore. “That building is stuffed with books that, once opened, reveal our communal story. And, if you’re lucky, the words in those books will force you to grapple with the hardest truths of your life. After reducing you to a puddle of tears, they’ll raise you to your feet again. The words will pull you up, higher and higher, until you feel the sun on your face again. Until you’re suddenly humming on the way to the mailbox. Or you’re buying bouquets of gerbera daisies because you crave bright colors. And you’ll laugh again—as freely as champagne bubbling in a tall, glass flute. When’s the last time you laughed like that?”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.”
― Ellery Adams, A Deadly Cliché

“Blue doesn't desbribe loss. Grief robs the world of color. Turns it heavy and gray.”
― Ellery Adams, Peach Pies and Alibis

“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“The unique and magical nature of books is their ability to grant us temporary escape from our reality while also providing ways to cope with that reality when we’re forced to return to it.”
― Ellery Adams, The Whispered Word

“A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. —Dr. Seuss”
― Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type

“Life ain't always easy and it ain't always fair, but there's beauty in every day. You just gotta know where to look.”
― Ellery Adams, Poisoned Prose

“The books in her shop
weren’t merely things. They were gifts wrapped in imagination, inspiration, excite
ment, pain, and heartache. Gifts given by thousands of writers. Gifts just waiting to
be opened.”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book & Scone Society

“You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. —Ray Bradbury”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“You like almost every genre, but you’re a binge genre reader. When you’re on a science-fiction kick, you stay with sci-fi for weeks. Then, all of a sudden, you’ll drop that genre and turn to historical fiction.”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“Every book was a tree living a second life. And the older the book, the more it smelled of the earth—the more the rustle of its crisp, yellowed pages sounded like the rustle of leaves.”
― Ellery Adams, Ink and Shadows

“I need books like I need oxygen.”
― Ellery Adams, The Book of Candlelight

“Words have power, and all things of power are dangerous.”
― Ellery Adams, Poisoned Prose

“Bookstores remind me that there are good things in this world. —Vincent van Gogh”
― Ellery Adams, The Book of Candlelight

“A town without a bookstore is an empty shell of a place.”
― Ellery Adams, Poisoned Prose

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. —C. S. Lewis”
― Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type

“There were books everywhere. Hundreds of books. Thousands of books. There were books of every size, shape, and color. They lined the walls from floor to ceiling, standing straight and rigid as soldiers on the polished mahogany shelves, the gilt lettering on their worn spines glinting in the soft light, the scent of supple leather and aging paper filling the air.”
― Ellery Adams, Murder in the Mystery Suite

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. —Rumi”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“With beauty before me, may I walk. With beauty behind me, may I walk. With beauty above me, may I walk. With beauty below me, may I walk. With beauty all around me, may I walk. Wandering on the trail of beauty, may I walk.”
― Ellery Adams, The Book of Candlelight

“If our dreams make the world better, then we should never stop chasing them.”
― Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type

“She planned to fix herself a cup of lemon-ginger tea and pick a book from the stack on her coffee table. It didn’t matter which title she chose, every book had something unique to offer. They were memories she’d yet to make. Worlds she’d yet to discover. Friends she’d yet to meet. And she was looking forward to making their acquaintance.”
― Ellery Adams, Murder in the Paperback Parlor

“By pouring yourself out, you can be filled up.”
― Ellery Adams, Ink and Shadows