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"The ear was such a trustworthy part of the human body. No matter how much weight you gained, your ears remained exactly the same, always loyal."

"It wss wrong, she knew. Allah could not and should not be personified... One had to refrain from attributing human qualities to him—that's to say, Him—which was not easy since every one of his—that's to say, His—ninety-nine names happened to be qualities also pertinent to human beings. He could see it all but had no eyes; He could hear it all but jad no ears; He could reach out everywhere but had no hands.."

"He imagined a new life for her, one where she would be protected from herself, from her urges. A life composed of habits and constraints."

"At night he dreams that he's running. A dog's dreams."

"She feels exhilarated, like an imposter whose true identity has not yet been exposed. Full of gratitude for being loved and paralysed by the idea of losing everything."

Paradox, a powerful awareness.

"Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have with objects. Not that they come alive within him; it is he who lives in them."

"But architects and city planners, concerned with ensuring their own immortality, have other ideas. They see the Library as a legacy project, and books as mere props, a motley assortment of mismatched objects that mar the clean lines of their design aesthetic.

They are no friends to books."

"A smile is the result of a long journey. Our faces are the sum of all the time we have soent building and maintaining it. It's not such a simple thing."

"I think it's important to have concrete goals in life, and walking through a wall seems doable, don't you think?"

Oliver is a painful mansplainer with the unsolicited topics that came out of him, and though often low-key but still very obviously condescending. Hugely insecure character, typical of mansplainers of course.

I read somewhere that someone compared this book to The Echo of Old Books. Make no mistake, they're nothing alike. The Lost Bookshop is twenty times better in depth, curation, and punch at the truths in the world. But I'm only half way in, let's hope the ending complements the curated storyline so far.

Feels like I've been tricked into reading a sappy romance, so not my genre. Considering to DNF.

Annoying main character

"Women were beautiful. So many curves, a softness that belied their underlying strength."