“The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“A place ain’t a place without a bookstore,”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“We are not quite novels.
We are not quite short stories.
In the end, we are collected works.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
We are not quite short stories.
In the end, we are collected works.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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