The Bookseller Quotes

“I think suddenly about what it means to grow old. It means that all those that you loved as a youth become nothing but photographs on a wall, words in a story, memories in a heart.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you. —Katherine Anne Porter, Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“لا يمكنني تغيير أخطاء الماضي. كل ما أملك القيام به هو المضي قدماً مهما كان المستقبل الذي يحمله حاضري الجديد”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“But there is something about pleasing your parents, even when you’re grown up, even when you’re almost middle-aged yourself. It never goes away, at least not for me.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“I wait, browsing the stacks, thinking that the library is both the bookstore’s enemy and our friend. They have everything here—why would anyone ever need to buy a book? On the other hand, there is nothing like the library to awaken a reader to the endless possibilities of the written word.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“My nighttime forays tend toward the fantastical, toward dreams that place one outside of conventional time and space. This, I have concluded, is because I read so much.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“In that other life, I am the center of my world. Of course, I love and care about other people—many other people. But at the end of the day, my thoughts and actions are mainly about managing my own life and my own emotions. Here,”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“I cannot change the mistakes of the past. All I can do is move forward with whatever future my new reality holds.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“What I’ve learned, what we’ve both learned over the years, is that nothing is as permanent as it appears at the start.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“think suddenly about what it means to grow old. It means that all those that you loved as a youth become nothing but photographs on a wall, words in a story, memories in a heart.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“The two delightful ones. And the frightening one. I shake my head in the darkness. That’s not fair, I tell myself. You have no idea why that child acted that way. True, something was off with him.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“I think suddenly about what it means to grow old. It means that all those that you loved as a youth become nothing but photographs on a wall, words in a story, memories in a heart.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“The other world, I know now, has faded. I am here. I am where I belong.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“If I fall asleep, I will wake up back where I belong. Where things make sense and nothing is confusing like this.”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“But for all of them, regardless of their ability, the responsibility of their education falls to the teacher. And who can fulfill that for every single child? What teacher is capable of that?”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“The world I live in, everything perhaps is not perfect, but at least it makes sense”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“Lo baño,”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller

“our”
― Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller