For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.

It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.

We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books

Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.

There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.

As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.

That which didn't kill them made them stranger.

This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it—so few people, so many opinions?

Law is always better than war.

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.