The Bookshop of Yesterdays Quotes

“Every family has its unspoken stories.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“(T)hat's the thing about probability, however unlikely. There is always a chance.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Sadness is like a maze. You make some mistakes along the way, but eventually you find your way out.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Every day has a past. Every day has a tomorrow.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“It's difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“It helps, knowing we’re still happy somewhere.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“You don’t have to like your family, you only have to love them.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Every time I came home, Dad’s hair had grown more salt than pepper, his olive skin more leathered, his blue eyes grayer. It made me want to clutch his hand and beg him to stop getting old.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“People sell aging as graceful. Because the process happens slowly, we’re encouraged to embrace it as we would an aria. You can accept aging with dignity and civility, but the daily injustices of growing old have very little music to them.”
The Bookshop of Yesterdays, Chapter 22.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“To the nights we’ll never remember with friends we’ll never forget,”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Understanding prepares us for the future.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“I needed to give myself a chance, too. ...not to be burdened by the past but to know it farther, to prepare for the future.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“I watched my oldest friend, the friends I’d recently made, the people who knew me before I knew myself. Yesterday’s Bookshop belonged to them as much as it did to me, but Prospero Books was Billy’s. Evelyn’s. We were giving the store a chance to survive. I needed to give myself a chance, too. It’s what Prospero had wanted for his Miranda, not to be burdened by the past but to know it farther, to prepare for the future.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Charlie sang as he filled the display case with muffins. The scene reminded me of Mom, how her song commenced with the opening of the cookbook and continued until the meal was plated. If I asked her what she was humming, she’d quiet, surprised that the sound existed outside her head. I’d stopped pointing out the melodies of her meals. It was the only time I got to hear her sing.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“I remember that time when your mom stops being a parent and becomes a person,” she said as we crossed the road toward the parking lot. “It’s difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Maybe we couldn’t return to what we always were to each other because we’d never been as close as I’d assumed we were.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Billy always knew what book you needed. He had this power, like he was some sort of book doctor—like books were a remedy.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“The law’s a profession of the written word. Do you know what most lawyers want to be? Writers.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Sobreviver significava renascer uma e outra vez. Não era fácil, e era sempre doloroso. Mas não havia outra opção senão a morte.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“a pet, like any relationship, was about accountability, not love.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“As you from your crimes would pardon’d be, Let your indulgence set me free.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Billy never completely grasped that other people were as real as he was.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“It didn’t matter whether or not it was sad.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Most of all, I missed Prospero Books, how it was love, job, place and—my addition to Lee’s list—family.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“I deprived my love of the thing she wanted most. Growing up, Evelyn never had family dinners, holidays, movie nights. I took the possibility of that from her when I failed to make the house safe. When I failed to keep her safe. I told myself that I didn’t know how to keep you safe, either, that I didn’t deserve to create a family without Evelyn.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“A tristeza é como um labirinto. Cometemos alguns erros ao longo do percurso, mas a verdade é que acabamos por encontrar a nossa saída.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Baseball is like the rest of life, he told me. You have to decide how you want to be.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“I reached for the mug he held out to me and took a sip. The coffee was black and strong, but I drank it, anyway. Adding milk or sugar seemed like admitting weakness.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“I hate movie tie-in covers.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“I hugged Lee and he hesitated before putting his arms around me. It was the closest I’d get to hugging Billy. The closest I’d get to hugging Evelyn, too.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays