The Cinnamon Bun Book Store Quotes

“He was summer and she was fall. He was adventure and she was comfort. But right now, on the cusp between the two seasons, in this liminal space they’d carved out for themselves, they fit just right.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I always bring a book, just in case.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I was prepared to read every damn book in that bookstore just to spend more time with you.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Maybe she hadn’t needed to change her life, maybe she’d just needed to change how she saw her life. How she saw herself.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“You brought a book.’ ‘Of course I did.’ His mouth tipped up in the corner, unable to resist the little smirk on her face. ‘Of course you did.’ ‘I always bring a book, just in case.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Because what more did one need besides good friends, good books, and the occasional cinnamon bun?”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Will you be my best friend?’ the fox asked the rabbit. ‘But we’re so different,’ said the rabbit. ‘That’s why I like you.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I am not! I just prefer to be inside. I’m an inside cat.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Hazel wasn’t her job or her curls or her cute button-up blouses. She was the tart spark of blueberries on his tongue, she was salt air and rainy days, she was the perfect book. She was kisses and secret smiles. She was everything. He just needed her.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“She liked her bookstore. She liked cups of chamomile tea and rainy days and the Sunday morning crossword puzzle. She liked her quiet life.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“she was salt air and rainy days, she was the perfect book. She was kisses and secret smiles. She was everything.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“He’d read just one more chapter and then deal with his own shit...”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“It was a slow day, bright and sunny, the type of day people wanted to be running around outside, not browsing the shelves of a bookstore. Not that Hazel understood that line of reasoning. She always wanted to be browsing the shelves of a bookstore.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“She was watching him now, her big eyes taking him in like she always did. She looked at him like maybe he didn't come up short in her eyes. Hazel was the one person in his life who looked at him and he didn't feel like she was searching for something that wasn't there. And God, wasn't that addictive? That feeling that maybe you were good enough.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“lost-in-your-favorite-book good, sun-on-your-face good, the-perfect-cup-of–coffee good.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Say you’ll be my wife, Haze.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“She brought him back to life, reconstructed him into a better version than the original. And he felt alive. He was alive. He was real.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Hazel Kelly was the only thing he’d felt like learning about in years.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Cute in like a koala-napping-in-a-tree kinda way. Not cute in a I-want-to-get-in-her-pants kinda way. And that was fine. She’d made her peace with it.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“For some people, Hazel assumed, thirty meant an end to the wild and storied days of their twenties. A time to settle down, to get serious, to be an adult. Hazel had a different problem with thirty. She’d forgotten to have wild and storied days. Her twenties had been ... calm? Responsible? Boring. Hazel had essentially been in her thirties since she was fifteen.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I have all my favorite days with you.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“And God, wasn’t that addictive? That feeling that maybe you were enough.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“She liked cups of chamomile tea and rainy days and the Sunday morning crossword puzzle. She liked her quiet life.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I think I’ve had plenty of fun for one night. I should probably get to bed.’ ‘Haze, it’s nine o’clock.’ ‘I’m tired.’ ‘Haze, nine o’clock is an old-lady bedtime.’ ‘I’m an old lady.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Not that Hazel understood that line of reasoning. She always wanted to be browsing the shelves of a bookstore.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“She wanted to say more. That he was a breath of fresh air in her musty life, that he was slowly reminding her how to let go, that he was waking her up like the Sun after a long winter”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“If nothing else, his little infatuation with her had given him a new hobby, a way to quiet his mind and calm his body. It was nice, laying here on a rainy day in his sweats, totally absorbed in another world. If school had been like this he definitely would have finished.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Me too.’ His voice was low and rough like those two words meant so much more than he spoke out loud. Like maybe he meant, me too, you’re my favorite person, too. Me too, I have all my favorite days with you.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Hazel was doubled over in giggles and Noah would let Mac make fun of him all day just to keep listening to that sound.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Good job, skipper.’ He kissed the tip of her nose and Hazel blinked.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store