The Spellshop Quotes

“It wasn’t that she didn’t like people. It was only that she liked books more.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“It wasn't that she didn't like people. It was that she liked books more. They didn't fuss or judge or mock or reject.They invited you in, fluffed up the pillows on the couch, offered you tea and toast, and shared their hearts with no expectation that you'd do anything more than absorb what they had to give.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Books should be shared with everyone who wants to open their minds and hearts to them.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Of course knowledge is dangerous. But ignorance is even more dangerous”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“There's no such thing as a weed," Cas said. "That's a cruel term made up by people who label some plants as 'unwanted' and some as 'valuable,' as if the worth of a living thing is measured by how useful it is to another living thing. As if a plant can't gave its own intrinsic worth.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“You know, plants aren't nearly as emotionally exhausting as humans. You should try to be more plant”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“I want to know you better."
"No, you don't. I'm not friendly. I like to be alone."
"You can be alone with me.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Bookshelves! That was the most perfect thing anyone had ever offered her. Better than jewels or feast or a palace.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“I can’t lose books; I’d lose me.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“I’m just an honest person, but if I’m truly being honest, sometimes blunt is just mean. Honesty can be an excuse for bullying.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Caz? Are you ever lonely?"
"How can I be? I have books.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“I read and I forget anything else exists. And I don’t forgive anyone who isn’t careful with books. I hate people who tear out pages, who bend corners, who break the spines.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“She didn’t really know anything about running a shop or magic or jam… But I do know books - and that meant there was nothing she couldn’t know, eventually. That was magic in and of itself.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“How much knowledge had been lost because no one wrote it down?”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“I think you were incredibly brave."
"Oh, yes, I bravely ran away."
"You did. You saved yourself, your friend, and you came here and saved us.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“And she had her books. If everyone living failed her, whenever they did, she had all the immortal voices caught in pages.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Because knowledge is power, and the powerful want - wanted - to keep it all to themselves.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Maybe this was something that could last. How often did you meet someone who offered to build you bookshelves?”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Books should be shared with everyone who wants to open their minds and hearts to them”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Questions are the heart of a functioning society.” She wondered if she’d read that somewhere or had just invented it. She rather liked it.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“I was terrible to both of you. Why are you being so kind?"
"Because we can.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“We’re not murdering anyone. That’s not what librarians do. Bit of shelving, bit of researching, bit of underhanded violence? No.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“She was lonely, and she wanted someone to love. She made me out of love, and the empire destroyed her for it.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Questions are the heart of a functioning society.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“This is a ridiculous conversation that I regret beginning. You are not unlikable. I chose to be your assistant, out of all the librarians in the Great Library. I am a very picky plant with impeccable taste”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“She'd just finished talking with people! Lots of people! She wanted to burrow into her house and not have to worry about what she'd say and what he'd say and all of rhat back-and-forth talking nonsense”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“I hope you know what you're doing" Caz said as he returned.
"I absolutely do not know what I'm doing. I thought that was clear?”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Some people are like that. They derive joy from sapping other people’s joy. The trick is not to let them. Just keep playing your own song.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Find someone who will be there for you, her father had once told her. Someone who will laugh with you through the years. Someone who makes you happy day-to-day.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop