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

by Alice Hoffman

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

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.

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