The Little Lost Library (A Secret, Book, and Scone Society Novel Book 7)

by Ellery Adams

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. —Khalil Gibran

“My home is my whole world,” she told Nora the first time they’d met. “I don’t want outsiders in my world.

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. —Louis L’Amour

The Cherokee believed the cardinal was a sacred animal. The bird’s presence indicated that it had a message to deliver. It could also mean that someone Nora knew had recently died, and the cardinal was carrying the person’s soul to the creator.

When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. —Maya Angelou

Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. —Wendell Berry

“If your house were burning down and you could take away one thing, what would it be?” “I’d take the fire.” —Jean Cocteau, interviewed by André Fraigneau

“Don’t wish your time away, darlin’. It goes fast enough, all on its own.”

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. —Robert Brault