The Lost Bookshop Quotes

“Lost is not a hopeless place to be. It is a place of patience, of waiting. Lost does not mean gone for ever. Lost is a bridge between worlds, where the pain of our past can be transformed into power. You have always held the key to this special place, but now you are ready to unlock the door.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“I couldn’t explain it, not even to myself, but books gave me an unflinching sense of stability and groundedness. That because words survived, somehow I would too.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“An angry man was dominant. An angry woman, on the other hand, must have lost her grip on sanity.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“The thing about books,’ she said, ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“In a place called lost, strange things are found.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Lost Bookshop

“Listen to me, Martha – if you’re not scared, then you’re not living.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“No one is coming to save you. People don’t suddenly change, say they’re sorry and begin to treat you with respect. They are a jumble of hurt and pain and they will take it out on whomever they can.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“there was a young woman who came to the library, miles away from her true home. She read a story about a girl who had come to a fork in the road and was so afraid of making the wrong decision that she stayed where she was, huddled in the hollow of a tree. After several days, an old woman came along and told her a riddle. She asked, ‘What is something you create, even if you do nothing?’ The answer was a choice. Choosing not to do something was still a choice.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Some things are meant to be flawed. Therein lies beauty.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“it didn’t matter whether the decision you made was right or wrong, as long as you made it. That’s what moved you along in life.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“He made me laugh without meaning to. In fact, that was how he seemed to exist in the world. Just making it better, without meaning to.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“People call me eccentric, but then I call them boring, so it’s all relative.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“it’s better to keep your mouth shut and look stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Good enough for whom? For people who are trapped in a life that is not of their own making? Surely you can see that they merely want you to be trapped with them, so they will feel less alone in their emptiness. Be careful, Martha, you’ll become blind to your own value if you keep looking through the eyes of the bourgeoisie!”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“I couldn’t explain it, not even to myself, but books gave me an unflinching sense of stability and groundedness.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Hope’ is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all –”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“If you tilt your head,’ he told me once, ‘you can hear the older books whispering their secrets.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Just then, I felt something I hadn’t experienced in a long time. It was like my heart was smiling.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“I learned something in that moment; you’re on your own in this world. No one is coming to save you. People don’t suddenly change, say they’re sorry and begin to treat you with respect. They are a jumble of hurt and pain and they will take it out on whomever they can. I had to save myself.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“books help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“The familiar feeling of excitement and curiosity I always had looking in the window of a bookshop pricked my skin. Don’t buy anything, I warned myself, as I craned my neck to look inside.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“every hardship in life was a key to some greater understanding, and it was up to you if you chose to use it to unlock the future or bolt the door.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“She asked, ‘What is something you create, even if you do nothing?’ The answer was a choice. Choosing not to do something was still a choice. I was choosing not to register for college because I was too scared. What I hadn’t realised was that I was actively choosing to stay stuck where I was, which scared me even more.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“In order for something to exist, you must first believe in it. Invite your heart to see what your eyes cannot. Follow your path and bring your heart to see what your eyes cannot. Follow your path . . .”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Stupid, stupid woman. Intimacy is only one string on the bow. The instrument still plays the music.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“They were outliers; they no longer cared for the kind of society that would not accept them. Instead, they inhabited a world of artists and free spirits who chose the vicissitudes of a nonconforming life over the comforts and security of the status quo.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“I’ve never known or understood what it really means to love or be loved. I’m not going to blame my past, but we all have one and it follows us around like a prison, always keeping us from the person we truly wish to be.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“We all have crap parts and good parts inside, but when you meet someone who makes you realise that it's all okay, you think, what in God's name did I do to deserve it? All of my life I've been searching for hidden treasure, fortunes outside myself. But Martha, she found them in me. I'm not perfect, by any means, but I know I want to spend the rest of my life making her smile. So I'm damned if I will let her go without a fight.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Like following a knitting pattern, I could see that everything was linked, but I had no idea how or why or what the end result would be.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop