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“Every day that passed with my hands in a sink full of dirty dishes and my bank account in the red brought me one step closer to the inevitable. Growing old in a place like this, using my youthful disappointments as a reason to hide. Turning into a sour, miserable old woman whose only solace could be found between the pages of a book—or a garden like this one.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“he’s some combination of Bigfoot, the bogeyman, and Jack the Ripper.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“I’m saying the world takes you at your word. Make sure the thing you’re telling them is what you want them to hear.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“We’re human beings, Chloe. Real live goddamned human beings. Not just some side characters who disappear the second they decide to turn the page.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts