Confessions of a Curious Bookseller Quotes

“There isn’t a greater sense of loneliness than when you know you’re making a mistake and you still don’t ask for help.”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller

“The truth of it is that most people who come in are quite satisfied, but generally speaking, happy people don’t leave reviews. So we hear the negativity far more frequently.”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller

“No one is born with thick skin; instead it is battle-tested on the rough seas of the business world. I hope they can survive.”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller

“Sometimes I think this place is nothing more than a cocoon from which I must emerge.”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller

“There isn’t a greater sense of loneliness than when you know you’re making a mistake and you still don’t ask for help. And then when it’s been made and everything falls apart, and you’re standing there in the ruins of your decisions, you either give up or you keep going. I have learned that I am the kind of leader that keeps going. In”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller

“My brother-in-law has been in retail for fifteen years and has never had a long Thanksgiving weekend or a decent Christmas break,”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller

“but generally speaking, happy people don’t leave reviews. So”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller

“Part of running a good business is not letting anyone know how bad things have really become.”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller

“It is much harder, I suppose, to let things go. One is then forced to deal with oneself. But then again, I deal with myself everyday. And once in a while it fells good to hold on to resentment. Sometimes, it's all that I have to hold on to.”
― Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller