The Bookstore Keepers (Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories, #3)

by Alice Hoffman

A man at sea who panicked was a man who drowned.

aloneness breeds loneliness, and loneliness will come between you and your beloved before you know it and drive you apart.

I love you more than pancakes, more than ice cream, more than pickles, more than my life. I love you more than dogs or cats or diamonds or gold, more than anyone else in the world.

I loved you girls more than a fish loves a river, more than a bird loves the sky.

The world could change, but love was the only thing that lasted, if you let it, if you didn’t throw it away.