Alexandra Mardlin

“Books keep stupidity at bay. And vain hopes. And vain men. They undress you with love, strength and knowledge. It’s love from within. Make your choice: book or…”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“The trouble is that so many people, most of them women, think they have to have a perfect body to be loved. But all it has to do is be capable of loving—and being loved.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Reading—an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls