The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities Quotes

“The magic of the room waned before her, like the sun at dusk yielding to the stars to let us lowly creatures know that it was time to dream. What was it about the stars that always made us dream? We looked upon the sky every night, and instead of seeing a graveyard of celestial objects, we saw beauty and possibility. Perhaps it was our nature. We were bodies of light, and we couldn’t help but worship the things that guided us through the darkness. So how could I resist? In all my life, I had never seen anything so beautiful. So unreachable. So easy to love and so hard to possess.”
― Iris Lake, The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities

“To think that I had tasted that spot on her neck was both a curse and a blessing. I’d never been very respectful of the gods, but in the lines and curves of her body, I knew there was faith to be found.”
― Iris Lake, The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities

“If you always try to force people into seeing the world the way you do, you will never love anybody. You will only love the pieces of yourself you find in others.”
― Iris Lake, The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities

“I had her, and she was my heart.”
― Iris Lake, The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities

“Books are mirrors for our souls. They force us to contemplate every small and grand aspect of life, and then they make us question how we fit into it. Reading is such a self-reflective practice that you both find and lose yourself at once.”
― Iris Lake, The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities

“My name is Apollo, not sir.” His eyes darted over my body, leaving an unspoken comment of the utmost impropriety. “Unless you like calling me sir, then I’m perfectly content with it.”
― Iris Lake, The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities

“If life was measured in moments of courage, I began to fear that mine was very small indeed.”
― Iris Lake, The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities

“My heart was beating again. It was beating for her.”
― Iris Lake, The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities

“I don’t know if it was stars, destiny, or just incredible luck that you found that necklace and that we found each other. I suppose people always like to think that something or someone up there is rooting for them. We might never know. But what I do know, what I’m certain of with every morsel and fiber of my being is that all these years you kept my heart safe, and I can only hope now that you’ll continue to do so. Because it’s still yours. You’ve had it, and you will have it for as long as you want it. I’m yours, for as long as you want me.”
― Iris Lake, The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities

“I used to think of life as the anxious waiting before a major happening, the days no more interesting than an assortment of distracting tasks to pass the time. Until, somewhere along the way, I realized that this profound something was never going to happen, and all these distractions—the small, unnoticeable things—were the very point of life.”
― Iris Lake, The Little Shop of Grand Curiosities