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

by Alice Hoffman

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.

To want something was dangerous. It could leave you with nothing at all.

“That’s the one thing I’m certain about,” Johnny told her. “You cannot love someone too much.”

Fate can hold out two things at the same time, joy and sorrow, the new life to come and the life that is ending.

Some things would always be remembered because they were handed down, things like love and memories and stories. Once upon a time they thought they had lost everything, they thought they’d lost each other, but instead they’d found a family, and they still held one another’s heart in their hands.