The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

by Gabrielle Zevin

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you’re the only person in the room. —A.J.F.

In the end, we are collected works.

“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.”

“You tell a kid he doesn’t like to read, and he’ll believe you,”