Must Love Books Quotes

“But somehow, books weren’t enough anymore. Staring at ink on a page and trying to get swept away was harder lately.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“She had the opportunities. She was told to take those opportunities and find her dream job, something that would fulfill her. It was internalized now, this idea of fulfillment. It made her feel weak to put this much stock in something her parents couldn’t even consider. They had managed just”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“Why had she relied on her unfulfilling job to give her the experience she needed for a fulfilling one?”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“They told her many times over that they wanted her to be happy—which seemed like it should have been the easiest benchmark but was somehow the one Nora couldn’t figure out how to reach.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“Maybe that happens, and maybe some people are fine with doing something pointless for the rest of their lives, but I’m not. If my life is pointless, that’s not a life I want to live.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“these books written by and for people like them, these books that weren’t around when they were young.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“But a bookstore is a bookstore is a bookstore. And there was always magic in that.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“It felt like she was letting them in on a secret: books were more important than anything.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“Since Nora’s first introduction to the allure of suicide, it kept coming back to her. Whenever she faced something even slightly difficult or felt that pinch of despair, it crept out of the dark corners of her mind to remind her it was still there, willing to talk whenever she was. Nora began to think of life as a battle between herself and this creature. It lurked in the shadows of her mind, always watching, always waiting for a moment when she was vulnerable enough to listen to what it had to say.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“And so she couldn't even feel proud about taking one step forward in search of happiness. Not when she had reason to fear where that step would lead her next.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“You may not know how wonderful, kind, and smart you are, but I know it.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“sentimental concept, to miss someone who was never even hers.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“And there was always magic in that.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“But a bookstore is a bookstore is a bookstore”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“retreating further and further into her unhappiness.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“inside her. She missed them. She missed herself. The Nora who giggled with Beth over silly jokes instead of tolerating them with forced laughter. The Nora who spent weekends devouring books instead of working or staring at the ceiling. The Nora who didn’t hide from sincerity or truth. That Nora had been gone for a year now, since the layoffs hit her team and sent her”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“She couldn’t, though. That would complicate things. There was no good reason to pull him in deeper with this version of Nora, with pieces missing”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“Part of her wanted to bring him down further, find the depths of his misery and swim in it, revel in their mutual unhappiness.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“vulnerable enough to listen to what it had to say.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“coming back to her. Whenever she faced something even slightly difficult or felt that pinch of despair, it crept out of the dark corners of her mind to remind her it was still there, willing to talk whenever she was. Nora began to think of life as a battle between herself and this creature. It lurked in the shadows of her mind, always watching, always waiting for a moment when she was vulnerable”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“Since Nora’s first introduction to the allure of suicide, it kept”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“how to find a new dream. And another, and another, until he found something that worked out for him.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“But the point of my tragic backstory is that seven-year-old Andrew learned”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“like herself made Nora feel like she could be part of something magnificent.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“books were more important than anything.”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books

“Uncertainty wasn’t overwhelming anymore”
― Shauna Robinson, Must Love Books