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

by Alice Hoffman

Someone had once told Isabel that you didn’t really know a man until you divorced him and then the truth about his soul would come tumbling out, for good or for bad, but now she wondered if the real way to understand a man was to witness how he reacted to his father’s death.

Even if you loved someone with all your heart, there were times when you had to let them grieve alone and make their own mistakes and wait until they found their way back to you.

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.

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

He might have changed in some ways, but inside he was still the same person he’d always been, a man who knew how to love someone.