Meet Me Under the Mistletoe Quotes

“Yes! There is no smell like book smell.” She nodded like a woman who’d sniffed a lot of books.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Some books wrote themselves into people’s hearts as children and lived there, all but forgotten, until a bookseller recognized the spark and reunited them. Other books held their words close, waiting on the shelf to ignite a passion in someone who hadn’t even known they were wanting,”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Her past was her own, and she was the only person allowed to judge her on it.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“You aren’t responsible for other people’s actions, or their happiness. It isn’t your job to make everyone feel better. Your altruism is to be commended but not at the expense of yourself.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Keeping books is not hoarding!” Nory said fiercely, clutching an aged copy of Heidi to her chest. “It’s protecting history. The written word is the key to the secrets of this world and all the worlds that live in our minds.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“My mum was a talented artist. She taught me how to look past what your brain is telling you you can see, and witness what’s really there instead. You’d be surprised how much our brains try to fill in the gaps for us.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“But life was like that, wasn’t it? A never-ending series of events, the ripples of which would either push you away from people or pull you toward them.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Even if you never physically returned, a part of the place would always travel with you surely. Like an imprint, a tattoo on your psyche.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“But you never forget your first love. You leave a tiny piece of your heart with them, always, and hope that they keep it safe.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Then you need to learn to love her, because like it or not, you’re stuck with yourself.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Keeping books is not hoarding......It's protecting history. The written word is the key to the secrets of this world and all the worlds that live in our minds.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Friendship groups like theirs were like a family in lots of ways; complicated and simple all at once. Sometimes they fought, sometimes they drifted, but the knots that bound their lives were too intricately tied to ever untangle truly.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Your family sound like mine,” said Nory to Dev. “Never repress what you could express,” she said, wagging her finger.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Suicide was greedy; it didn’t just take your friend once—it kept coming back for more, taking and taking, so that your remembrances were always bittersweet.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“You’re a very good kisser,” Nory whispered, stumbling slightly as he moved away from her. She’d heard of people getting punch-drunk, but was snog-drunk a thing?”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“In Nory’s opinion, book buying should never be rushed; she wanted her customers to feel they could sit and get to know a book before they purchased.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“book love was a magical thing.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“That was the thing about weddings: Those who were already married, reminisced (or perhaps lamented), and those who had never been, fantasized.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“It hadn’t mattered that they hadn’t seen each other from one year to the next because she’d known he was in the world somewhere. And suddenly he wasn’t. She would never see him again; that option had been removed from the universe.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe