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“The idea of casually leaving books out around the apartment felt very “grown up.”
― Bob Seay, The Bookseller's Son

“I had one of those stopovers when the children were young, just before Gilbert died, and Daan and I were happy, even though I didn’t know it was happiness at the time because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self-doubt. But Gilbert’s death was a swift ejection back out to the loneliest bitter stretch of road, and that is the bone crunching grief.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“She would have to buy other under-the-covers favorites later, not to read, but to make her smile when she saw them out in the open on a shelf.”
― Bob Seay, The Bookseller's Son

“When you start something, when you say something, you are responsible for where it goes,” George said. “You are responsible for any damage your words may cause. It doesn’t matter who struck the match.”
― Bob Seay, The Bookseller's Son