“Habit is a vain and treacherous goddess. She lets nothing disrupt her rule. She smothers one desire after another: the desire to travel, the desire for a better job or a new love. She stops us from living as we would like, because habit prevents us from asking ourselves whether we continue to enjoy doing what we do.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
“All the love, all the dead, all the people we've known. They are the rivers that feed our sea of souls. If we refuse to remember them, that sea will dry up too.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Books are more than doctors, of course. Some novels are loving, lifelong companions; some give you a clip around the ear; others are friends who wrap you in warm towels when you've got those autumn blues. And some...well, some are pink candy floss that tingles in your brain for three seconds and leaves a blissful voice. Like a short, torrid love affair.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
Ximena’s 2025 Year in Books
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