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

by Alice Hoffman

Even if you were a logical, rational person, life didn’t necessarily make sense. The deepest parts, the parts that mattered most—love and death, hope and disappointment—were a mystery that could never be explained.

A message can be found in a heart beating, or a bird flying by, or the sound of a siren so far away it can barely be heard.

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.

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

a secret can be the heaviest baggage of all.

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

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.