Cayla

“Books are what have brought us together. A love of the stories within, the adventures they take us on, their glorious distraction in a time of strife.”
― Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London

“When the governor announced his “day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer to deliver the people from the locusts and to comfort those afflicted,” thousands were already fasting, whether they liked it or not.”
― Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

“But as much as she loved reading the story, no one had prepared her for the end being so bittersweet. No one told her finishing the book would leave her so bereft. It was as though she’d said goodbye for the last time to a close friend.”
― Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London

“It's difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays: A Library Journal Best Book of Summer Literary Fiction Mystery