Jamie

“Star salt (the stars’ reflection in a river) Sun cradle (the sea) Lemon kiss (everyone knew exactly what this meant!) Family anchor (the dinner table) Heart notcher (your first lover) Veil of time (you spin around in the sandpit to find you are old and wet your pants when you laugh) Dreamside Wishableness This last word was Samy’s new favorite. “We all live in wishableness,” she said. “Each in a different kind.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“The melancholy with which it described an inability to live each day to the full, to take every day for what it really was, namely unique, unrepeatable and precious; how that dolefulness resonated with him.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Remain silent about the dead, and they’ll never leave you in peace.” Second,”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“he may have had the smallest hands but he always had the biggest fists. Whenever Joar left a room, it felt as if twenty people had walked out.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends