The Book Swap Quotes

“Books teach us, and I want to make sure I'm learning everything they're offering. I write in the margins to remember the book. To keep the words in my heart.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“You can't change them, but you can change you.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“A job doesn't mean anything. But love. A place to call home. A passion. That's life. That's living. The rest is just filler.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“There isn't a disconnection in the world that can't be healed by forgiveness.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“Sometimes just one small achievement is enough. Just making it through the day is enough.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“Something that is loved is never lost.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“You can't have success without some
failure, so stop being so afraid of it.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“Sometimes people are going through something you can’t relate to, and you just have to show up. I”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“Thank God for siblings, don’t you think? she’d replied. They’re the only people who can understand our fucked-up family dynamics.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“If I were to have a vision for my life in the future, it would be to continue what I've started here. To teach people to love books the way I do.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“None of us know how to
handle something we've never been through before. All we can do is learn from it. Use it to better ourselves.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“You do know no one except you is responsible for your life?”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“promised Bonnie I’d do it three years ago. I promised her the day she died.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“Just got to enjoy every good day,’ he says. ‘Make happy memories to last us through.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“You've got so much to be grateful for, mate. A job doesn't mean anything. But love. A place to call home. A passion. That's life. That's living. The rest is just filler.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“I just focus on the next thing. I start at the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy, and work my way up.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter.’ And that’s why we don’t do”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“If I can’t marry Harry, I’m never getting married,”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“The last place I thought I’d find myself on a Sunday afternoon is in the bedroom of a fifteen-year-old girl who seemingly has quite an unhealthy obsession with Harry Styles. There isn’t an inch of wall that isn’t covered with pictures of the famous pop star. Even the tiny cracks where you might see the paint break through are instead plastered with miniature images of his face.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“What is it with us men? Why don’t we talk to each other? There shouldn’t be any shame in it. Ask me.” He nods. “Ask me how I am. Properly. And I’ll answer. Then you do the same. Let’s just try it.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“The dream. A job that doesn’t suck out your soul.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“It's almost as though being out of my comfort zone
is my new comfort zone.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“The world make no sense without you.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap

“She lived a life without fear. Had no shame about who she was or what she believed in.”
― Tessa Bickers, The Book Swap