The Bookmobile Baby Quotes

“Fostering kids hasn’t been easy, but I think Art and I can handle it. We’re not perfect, and we’ve made a million mistakes already. But I don’t think perfection is required to be a good parent. We just have to get every day and try.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“I used to be the librarian Juniper County needed instead of the one my boss wanted. I used to eat highly processed junk food in front of my hipster neighbors. I used to ask the world to take me as I am instead of bending to what they expected of me. Where is that part of Simon Seymore now? Will I ever be able to get him back?”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“You’ve gotten this impression that I expect you to be perfect. And I can see what it takes out of you. That fire inside of you can’t burn if you’re so busy pleasing me that you’ve forgotten who you are. I don’t want you to be perfect, Simon. I just want you to be you.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“There’s an alarming splash beneath me. Damn it all. The books on the bottom shelf aren’t going to recover from this.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“Five years is a long time to stop living because someone you love is dead.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“Isaac’s sitting across from me in the grandeur of his foyer. The couches there are the most comfortable in the house, and Whitney’s sleeping upstairs, so this is where we decided to have the first official meeting of “Small Town, Small Library.” And no, that isn’t a thing. I just made it up.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“When an alpha like Art offers you the moon, you don’t ask for the sun. The moon is more than I ever thought I’d get.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“I rest my head in my hands. “I think I’m in love with him.” Isaac doesn’t tell me I’m crazy, even though I probably am. He just reaches over to give me a side hug. “I’m sorry. That sucks. Love always shows up at the most inconvenient times. Why can’t it get its shit together? Get a planner or something? Google calendar?”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“he’s texted me several times a day all through the week. Just little things like “good morning” and “I miss you, please send me a photo?” and “I meant of your face” when I send him a picture of my ass.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“I close my eyes with the rightness of that statement. That’s when I trust it—the concept of yellow. The act of telling Art “not yet” or “not now” is foreign to me. It’s not something you say to a one-night-stand. I smile with the realization that Art isn’t a one-night-stand anymore.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“Walking without seeing where I’m going is a strange sensation, but it’s a lot like cutting those tomatoes with his hand cupping mine. Maybe this is what trust feels like.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“But inviting Art to dinner feels like staying up too late to finish a good book. You know you’re going to hate yourself in the morning, but the thrill of what happens next is too sweet to pass up. So you keep reading and reading until you reach the last page.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“Grief is a greedy thing. It swallows everything in your life whole. Not just happiness and joy, but also desire.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“You can call an older alpha “Daddy” all you want during a casual fuck, but it isn’t true. A Daddy isn’t some random alpha from a club who scratches an itch you wish you didn’t have, and then tells you to get lost. A Daddy is an alpha who takes care of you.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“I’m not allowed to have any books about sex in the official collection. The patriarchy has deemed anything that could educate a teen omega about safe sex off limits.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“Its normal to be overwhelmed when you finally learn that your feelings have names.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“...Inviting Art to dinner feels like staying up too late to finish a good book. You know you're going to hate yourself in the morning, but the thrill of what happens next is too sweet to pass up. So you keep reading and reading until you reach the last page. (pg. 28)”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“Grief is a greedy thing. It swallows everything in your life whole. (p. 22)”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“A Daddy is an alpha who takes care of you.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby