Arika Sandemore > Arika's Quotes

“I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being …‘But I think it’s got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft … and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Nothing was dirty. With Park.
Nothing could be shameful.
Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I have lots of favorites. That's the trouble with books. You can never choose your favorite. It changes depending on your mood.”
― Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop

“Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for second; a book could scintillate forever.”
― Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop

“There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.”
― Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop

“So that was why people read. Because books explained things: how you thought, and how you behaved, and made you realise you were not alone in doing what you did or feeling what you felt.”
― Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop

“It was the sort of bookshop that stole time...”
― Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop

“After all, a town without a bookshop was a town without a heart.”
― Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop