The Library of Borrowed Hearts Quotes

“In many ways, books were more alive than most of the people he knew. They were living, breathing entities that changed each time you picked them up.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“If you don't like where you are, you don't have to pack up your whole family and abandon everything you know and love. All you have to do is grab a different story from the shelf.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“Every day that passed with my hands in a sink full of dirty dishes and my bank account in the red brought me one step closer to the inevitable. Growing old in a place like this, using my youthful disappointments as a reason to hide. Turning into a sour, miserable old woman whose only solace could be found between the pages of a book—or a garden like this one.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“We’re human beings, Chloe. Real live goddamned human beings. Not just some side characters who disappear the second they decide to turn the page.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“I’m saying the world takes you at your word. Make sure the thing you’re telling them is what you want them to hear.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“You’re everything that’s wrong with modern youth,” Jasper said without waiting for an invitation. I was so happy not to be the one under attack anymore that I actually found myself enjoying the exchange. “You’re too aware of your own worth. All you kids are. You make endless videos of your exploits, preen in front of mirrors, and get a blue ribbon every time you join a sport.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“He paused long enough to turn back to me. "When was the last time you cared about something so much you couldn't eat?" he demanded. "Or sleep? When have you ever felt the fire of life burn so bright that it hurts? When did you ever bother to fight for something you loved?”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“Things in this world rarely go according to plan, and we often find ourselves on roads and in cities we never planned to visit, let alone stay in forever. I take comfort from knowing that I can always pick up a book - a new one, if I want to travel someplace unique; an old one, if i find myself in need of a friend - and make everything feel right again.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“Everyone’s heart breaks at least once in a lifetime,” she said, determined, as ever, to go her own way. “It’s as inevitable as falling in love. The real challenge is deciding what you plan to do about it.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“Technically, it’s not a wild-goose chase if you catch the goose in the end.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“I pushed my cart down the nonfiction aisle and groaned to discover that someone had moved all the dystopian fiction to current events.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“Sloths can lock their hands onto a branch so hard that they sometimes stay attached even after they die,”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“There was nothing inside the book except a receipt for sixteen gallons of gas back when it cost $1.73 a gallon. $1.73? People had no idea how good they’d once had it. I’d paid almost three times that amount this morning. Pretty soon, I was going to have to start farming out my ovaries just to fill the tank.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“As a middle-aged man, he’d found books to be less about hope and more about finding the discrepancies between what fiction had promised and reality delivered.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“she’d wanted to remind me that “Life isn’t fair, it’s just fairer than death,”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“Make a run for it, Chloe! Save yourself! I'll distract her until you get to the good parts.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“Uh-oh. On a scale of one to lamprey, how stuck are you? I feel like I should prepare accordingly.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“It’s strange, isn’t it? To think that a hard heart could make you more vulnerable instead of less?”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“I hadn’t lost a grand romance the way he had, but I had lost out on a dream. To make something of myself and get out of this town, to build a life that extended beyond the mountains that ringed our little patch of God’s green earth.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“he’s some combination of Bigfoot, the bogeyman, and Jack the Ripper.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts

“Jasper Holmes looked me over with a twist to his upper lip.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Library of Borrowed Hearts