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

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.

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?

I know you have it in you, Guy, " Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

I'm not the settling-down type, I'm afraid. I think I'm cursed with a touch of Dating ADD.

When you find real love — protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.