The Bookstore Keepers Quotes

“You never know about wanting things. You can be surprised.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“Funerals don’t mean anything. It’s life that matters.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“Fate can hold out two things at the same time, joy and sorrow, the new life to come and the life that is ending.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“That’s the one thing I’m certain about,” Johnny told her. “You cannot love someone too much.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“The world could change, but love was the only thing that lasted, if you let it, if you didn’t throw it away.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“A message can be found in a heart beating, or a bird flying by, or the sound of a siren so far away it can barely be heard.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“Even if you were a logical, rational person, life didn’t necessarily make sense. The deepest parts, the parts that mattered most—love and death, hope and disappointment—were a mystery that could never be explained.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“She had married a man who cried and was patient and who wasn’t afraid to love someone.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“To want something was dangerous. It could leave you with nothing at all. “I just don’t know if I can give it to him.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“Someone had once told Isabel that you didn’t really know a man until you divorced him and then the truth about his soul would come tumbling out, for good or for bad,”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“the girl who lived in a bookstore but hadn’t liked books.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“To want something was dangerous. It could leave you with nothing at all.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“Even if you loved someone with all your heart, there were times when you had to let them grieve alone and make their own mistakes and wait until they found their way back to you.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“for aloneness breeds loneliness, and loneliness will come between you and your beloved before you know it and drive you apart.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“Some things would always be remembered because they were handed down, things like love and memories and stories. Once upon a time they thought they had lost everything, they thought they’d lost each other, but instead they’d found a family, and they still held one another’s heart in their hands.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“Even if you don’t talk to your sister for a dozen years, even if it’s more, you can still love her as much as you always did. You can be insulted, ignored, hurt, furious, and she will still be the one you want beside you when it matters most.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“I love you more than pancakes, more than ice cream, more than pickles, more than my life. I love you more than dogs or cats or diamonds or gold, more than anyone else in the world.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers

“The deepest parts, the parts that mattered most—love and death, hope and disappointment—were a mystery that could never be explained.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Keepers