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The Vanishing Type (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #5) The Vanishing Type by Ellery Adams
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“A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. —Dr. Seuss”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. —C. S. Lewis”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“Love is friendship set on fire. —Jeremy Taylor”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“Books reminded her that she was never alone. How could she be when the world was full of stories waiting to be read? Of characters waiting to introduce themselves?”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“If our dreams make the world better, then we should never stop chasing them.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“A person’s library is like a fingerprint. The books on their shelves are a collection of memories and wishes. They’re as unique as a snowflake.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, “I forgive. I’m finished with it.” —Maya Angelou”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity. —Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers “What must I do, Mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?” “The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret.” —Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, L.A. Confidential, Like Water for Chocolate, The Color Purple, Crazy Rich Asians, The Maltese Falcon, Pride and Prejudice, Lonesome Dove, The Namesake, The Remains of the Day, No Country for Old Men, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Wizard of Oz.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“What must I do, Mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?” “The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret.” —Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“I’m trying to keep my middle-aged spread from crossing state lines.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“A marriage is the union of two imperfect people, which means you need to go into it knowing it’ll never be perfect. Open up your mental window and throw that word out. Relationships are many things, but they’re never perfect. And that’s okay.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“What must I do, Mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?” “The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“Whoever came up with the idea to replace cover art with whats basically a movie poster should be exiled to Mars.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you’ve just met the person whose hand you’ll be holding the day you die. —Jodi Picoult”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“A bookstore is the perfect place to fall in love again and again and again. Every day is Valentine’s Day when you’re surrounded by books.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“A lively mind is sexier than a hot bod.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“There’s a Maya Angelou quote taped to my computer. It says, ‘A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“Stop drooling over Idris Elba,” Sheldon scolded his female companions. “That’s like asking us to stop breathing,” Nora said.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“I hate movie tie-in covers. They’re like the worst dressed at the Oscars. Whoever came up with the idea to replace cover art with what’s basically a movie poster should be exiled to Mars.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
“Honey, we all have to play nice for a living.”
Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type