The Bookstore Family Quotes

“Books are always what we need. Don’t forget to look for magic.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Let’s always be here in the wild woods, holding hands, remembering our lives together, listening to the birds fall asleep in the trees, let’s never be apart.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Life is not about anything being fair,” Johnny said. “It’s about doing the right thing.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“She wasn’t ready to admit that there were times when a dream was better as a dream than it was in real life.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Every time a book is reread it’s entirely different depending on who the reader has become.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Sometimes you had to reclaim the person you had once been in order to go forward.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“There are some things you must learn for yourself, and how to find happiness is one of them.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Do it,” he said. “That’s my advice. Fall in love. It’s worth it.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Life is not about anything being fair,” Johnny said. “It’s about doing the right thing. That’s why we have Goblin.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Sometimes the best thing is to hope for peace, and a view of the beach, and the people you love to be beside you.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“She had forgotten how books could open the world and make it seem brand new. She’d forgotten that if you accepted the fact that anything might happen, it actually might. You might find a coin on the sidewalk that could grant your wishes, you might drink coffee with a stranger and tell him the story of your life, and when you left you might buy a dozen more books, the ones you loved most, the ones you read when you were ready to step into another life, the one where it just might be possible to have an open heart.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Violet devoured the book as if it were brand new, and perhaps it was. Every time a book is reread it’s entirely different depending on who the reader has become.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“love them,” Violet blurted. “So do I,” the man across from her said. It was then she noticed a book with wings had been inked in blue on his wrist. “So I see,” Violet said. “I’m a reader,” he told her. “There are worse things to be.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“reason to wake up every morning, for cats had to be fed. “He’s”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Happiness is for idiots,”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“there were times when a dream was better as a dream than it was in real life.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“They climbed to the top branch where you could see so clearly it seemed that everyone you had ever loved was not so very far away. All you had to do was remember, and there they were.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Violet read one book after another, those she had loved as a child and those she’d never read before. The more she read, the more her heart opened. With each book she was reminded of what mattered most.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Once upon a time I lived in a bookstore, I looked out the window and couldn’t see the beauty of the place, I couldn’t see it until I described it to you.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“She had forgotten how books could open the world and make it seem brand new. She’d forgotten that if you accepted the fact that anything might happen, it actually might.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“It was a tragic situation, but isn’t every love affair marked by loss and the need for courage? Isn’t it worth the price?”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“What do you do when you can’t seem to get a recipe right? she wrote to Remy that same night. Sometimes it’s the recipe that’s getting in the way. And sometimes you just need to step back and see it from a different perspective, he wrote back. Tell your own story.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“I’m happy because I stopped trying to be someone I wasn’t, Isabel wanted to say to her niece, but she didn’t dare. There are some things you must learn for yourself, and how to find happiness is one of them.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“I’m happy because I finally made the right choice after making some truly bad ones,' Isabel said. 'And for the record, I know what it’s like to be unhappy.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“Death wasn’t a foreign country; it was the country we all walked past each and every day.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“wanted to say to her niece, but she didn’t dare. There are some things you must learn for yourself, and how to find happiness is one of them.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family

“all time, George Sand and her lover Frédéric Chopin.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Family