♡

“Reading a lot doesn’t make you an intellectual, any more than eating a lot makes you a gourmet. I’m an egotist, reading purely for my own pleasure, out of love for good stories, not to learn something about the world.”
― Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

“You're not asking too much," he said. "You were just asking the wrong person. Ask me instead.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“We’re all a little broken, Briana. We are a mosaic. We’re made up of all those we’ve met and all the things we’ve been through. There are parts of us that are colorful and dark and jagged and beautiful. And I love every piece of you. Even the ones you wish didn’t exist.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“It has been said that books find their own readers—but sometimes they need someone to show them the way.”
― Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore