Emily

“It was horribly difficult, she reflected, to have finally found the place you thought of as home, only to realize you were going to have to move on again.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner

“Because life is like that, isn’t it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you’d never do anything ever again.”
― Jenny Colgan, 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.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner

“Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants