Bookshops & Bonedust Quotes

“Because I’m headed down the hill, and you’re headed up it. I’m just glad we chanced to meet on the way.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“I don't know if I can explain it, but watching you read what I give you, putting a book in your hands and seeing what happens to you once you put it back down... I can't make you understand how that gives me something I didn't know I had to have.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Every book is a little mirror, and sometimes you look into it and see someone else looking back.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Never trust a writer who doesn’t have too many books to read. Or a reader, for that matter,” said Zelia.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“See you in the story past the story.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“You do something for years and years, and the only reason you continue is because once you stop, you won't really have anything.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“You know, there’s a lot of people out there. Lot of noise. I love what I do, love it every day, but none of us sees more than a tiny piece of all the world, like we’re lookin’ out a little-bitty window. And I saw you through mine, and somethin’ inside me said, ‘That’s somebody you oughta know.’ Simple as that.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“You’re just trying to make it to the other end, and while you’re in it, there’s nothing to either side. Only the way forward. You know, the tunnel. Maybe when you find a way out, you can look around, but until then …”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Well,” breathed Fern, surveying the interior with both brows raised. “Fuck me.”

Satchel drew back from her in alarm, and his eyes seemed to widen as the flames within them burned brighter.

Viv leaned down near his skull and whispered, “It’s just a figure of speech, not a request.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“The glow in The Perch dimmed, her corner untouched by the blast of light and heat from the hearth across the room, so she asked for a lantern to read by. The kid obliged, and despite the uncomfortable chair and the ache in her leg and the backwater in which she’d been abandoned, she was absorbed. She was transported. She was elsewhere.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Viv stayed quiet. Sometimes, that was just what you had to do.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Never trust a writer who doesn’t have too many books to read. Or a reader, for that matter,”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Because I’m headed down the hill, and you’re headed up it. I’m just glad we chanced to meet on the way.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“And as Tandri laughed, waiting for the full story, Viv was grateful for all the wrong times that had led to this right one.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“I guess I haven’t had much time for … acquaintances the past few years. I’m out of practice.” Cracking an eye at her, Viv said, “You’re in the tunnel. I know how it goes.” “The tunnel?” “You’re just trying to make it to the other end, and while you’re in it, there’s nothing to either side. Only the way forward. You know, the tunnel. Maybe when you find a way out, you can look around, but until then …”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Besides, total ignorance never stopped me from trying anything before.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“She slept hard. She slept late. And when she woke, she wanted to eat the whole world.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Moist books?”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“At this point, she figured that if enemies from across the sea lay siege to the fortress walls, there would still be a line at Sea-Song. And some of the besiegers would probably be in it.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“There were simply snatches of time where her thoughts were on the insides of her eyelids.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“You don’t pass people around like…. like luggage. Even if they’re inside luggage.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Sometimes, I just read one page and think about it. Kind of turn it over in my head like a stone and look at it from all sides.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Many wonders. Perfect beauties. Great seas set aflame by sunsets. Endless underground lakes in soundless caverns. The winter light on mountain snow that has never thawed.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Having you here is connecting me to why I do this. To why I used to love it. I don’t know if I can explain it, but watching you read what I give you, putting a book in your hands and seeing what happens to you once you put it back down … I can’t make you understand how that gives me something I didn’t know I had to have.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“You’re just trying to make it to the other end, and while you’re in it, there’s nothing to either side. Only the way forward. You know, the tunnel. Maybe when you find a way out, you can look around, but until then”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“I gotta ask, is that the same mug you're always cleaning or they all get a chance?”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Well, this is a gods-damned surprise,” puffed Gallina. “When you said you served your Lady, I gotta say, I thought you meant, like . . . tea.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“If we'd met in another few years, who knows? Maybe we'd both be lookin' out from the same hill. Doesn't change that you're still somebody I want to know. Doesn't change what I can do with the days I have. Doesn't make those matter less.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Their heights were too different to hold a hand or interlink an arm, but they walked close together, brushing against one another in delicious accidents.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“The more I think about it ... it seems like it ought to be obvious, but people in books are wrong all the time. Hells, the authors are wrong. So maybe that's what the story says in the words that got put down, but if you could read past the end? The words that didn't get written? Maybe it ends up being something else altogether. ... The story past the story.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust