Eleanor Brown Quotes

There is no problem a library card can't solve.

She had gone from most favored nation to useless ally, from Cordelia to Ophelia.

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

And the baby would never know what it meant to hate Barnwell so deeply that she couldn't help but return to it.

He had the singular ability to knock down her carefully bricked defenses, which was a compliment to them both and the secret to their love.

How different her mother's world was from hers. How different our mothers' worlds are from all of ours.

Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me.

But Rose learned an important lesson: people don't always do what you tell them to do.

we came home because we were failures

Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.

There is no problem that a library card can't solve.

Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder ...

Every room has a mood or personality ... and it is this that one desires to develop.

Imagine what could happen if we all had the heart to be who we truly are.

Sisters keep secrets.
Because sisters' secrets are swords.

Oh honey, we're all fuckups in our own special ways.

There is nothing that isn't beautiful about bread.

Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.

Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.

Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.

Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

She did not want him. Had she ever? It is so easy to look at love when it is over and think it was never real.

August is a teacher's longest Sunday -Weird Sisters

We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.

Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.