“Were we all preconditioned to love certain things? A moment in childhood, lost to memory but indebily marked on our souls?”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
“In order for something to exist, you must first believe in it. Invite your heart to see what your eyes cannot. Follow your path and bring your heart to see what your eyes cannot. Follow your path . . .”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
“Madame Bowden’s words returned to me. If you’re not scared, you’re not living. Up to now, I had never associated fear with anything positive. But maybe there were different kinds of fear.”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
“She asked, ‘What is something you create, even if you do nothing?’ The answer was a choice. Choosing not to do something was still a choice. I was choosing not to register for college because I was too scared. What I hadn’t realised was that I was actively choosing to stay stuck where I was, which scared me even more.”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
“Lost is not a hopeless place to be. It is a place of patience, of waiting. Lost does not mean gone for ever. Lost is a bridge between worlds, where the pain of our past can be transformed into power.”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
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