“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
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“The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things.”
― The Bookshop on the Corner
― The Bookshop on the Corner
“There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music - to breach the barrier, to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.”
― The Bookshop on the Corner
― The Bookshop on the Corner
“Maybe it’s still worth it to me, even if it doesn’t last forever,” he said. “Maybe you’re still worth it to me.”
― Eternal Life
― Eternal Life
“Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out full of regrets.”
― The Little Shop of Happy Ever After
― The Little Shop of Happy Ever After
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