The Little Bookshop of Love Stories Quotes

“Books are magical in that they can transport you to another time and place, introduce you to people you come to know as friends, in both characters, authors and now in real people who, at some point in their lives, have chosen each book as carefully selected gifts for someone they cared about.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“The world is endlessly big when you have books.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Books have always been my escape from daily life and now they are my daily life.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“There will always be hopes and dreams to keep us going. There will always be something to look forward to, even if it’s only the knowledge that things will get better. There will always be love. To look for, to hope for, to dream about. Maybe not even romantic love. A job you love, a friend you love, an animal, or a thing, or even a book that will improve your life. There will always be something good coming.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“I’m alone in the world, although I believe that anyone who loves books is never truly alone, and that’s always been enough for me.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Books connect us in a world where a lot of connections are broken nowadays. They can help us, heal us, break us and put our broken pieces back together again. They can make us believe in magic. In love. In anything.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Stories are timeless. They spill through ages, times, genders, races, religions, nationalities. They unite us. With the world the way it is at the moment, they’re one of the only things we’ve got left that does. People are still reading books that were written hundreds of years ago. Children are still brought up with fairy tales that date back to centuries we can’t even imagine living in. That’s magic of a different kind.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Books connect us in a world where a lot of connections are broken nowadays. They can help us, heal us, break us and put our broken pieces back together again. They can make us believe in magic. In love. In anything”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“I think you take a part of every book with you when you’ve finished it, because for just a few hours, you’ve lived another life. You’ve experienced what the character has experienced, felt what they’ve felt, and loved who they’ve loved. I think the best thing you can do after reading a book like that is to share it.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“I don’t think it’s a bad thing to believe in magic,’ he continues. ‘To believe the world could be a little bit better than it is. And it’s definitely not a bad thing to want to meet someone who makes you feel like that. Isn’t that what everyone should hold out for?”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“I think you take a part of every book with you when you’ve finished it, because for just a few hours, you’ve lived another life. You’ve experienced what the character has experienced, felt what they’ve felt, and loved who they’ve loved.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“How amazing would it be to own a bookshop? To get to live and breathe books every day? To get paid for stroking books, arranging books, talking about books, recommending books, and thrusting books into the hands of unsuspecting strangers?”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“How can you be so positive?’ I ask before I realise I’m going to say anything. ‘I mean, after everything you’ve been through, I’d expect you to be sad and angry at the world …’ ‘I always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“There’s definitely something about a man who reads and understands a love of books.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“I remember the books I read when I was young like they really happened, like I witnessed the events in them happening to real-life friends, and I have an overwhelming desire to find a copy of Peter Pan and curl up in one of the beanbags to read it.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“I haven’t ventured much further than that, except on the pages of books. The world is endlessly big when you have books.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that today is the Mondayest Monday ever.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Horror can be hidden by even the most beautiful of façades.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“This is why books are so important. It’s why kids should be encouraged to enjoy reading – because books can change lives and make people feel not alone when they most desperately need”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“I see why Robert came down here. The waves are breaking gently in the distance and looking out at the ocean makes me feel small and free, like it’s okay if I mess things up sometimes and make mistakes and drop things that aren’t meant to be dropped. It doesn’t matter”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Because as a bookseller, you wanted to specialise in books that have meant something to someone. You wanted to pass on books that have been loved before.’ ‘Stories are timeless. They spill through ages, times, genders, races, religions, nationalities. They unite us.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“who, at some point in their lives, have chosen each book as carefully selected gifts for someone they cared about.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Usually I’m utterly against people who can be cheerful in the morning and feel they deserve the wrath of a thousand miniature Satans, but it doesn’t apply with Dimitri.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Before I realised that life’s too short to do something you hate.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“One of my favourite things about Buntingorden has always been how dog-friendly it is.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“And he’s a baker. There’s something about people who bake that makes them seem like inherently good people. Why do people bake if not for the sole purpose of making other people happy and creating something that will bring others joy?”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Books can change people’s lives. They can be friends when there’s no one else to turn to.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“I’m fulfilled by my overflowing bookshelves and my Kindle, bought through the necessity of not having space for any more books”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Maybe fate or the universe or whatever powers that be decided I would have the worst luck in the world, just so on this ordinary day in May, I could win a bookshop, and a new chapter of my life could start.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Owning a bookshop has always been my dream, but people as unlucky as me don’t get dream jobs.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories