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The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.

If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box - no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her spine.

Pregnant, she looked like a pretty Gollum.

But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing. We blame them for everything.

Maybe I'll even become a nun and swear off boys forever."
Scarlet turned to study me. "No. Your face wouldn't be good in a habit.

I thought I was grown-up. I thought I knew what I was doing. These were a few of the lies I told myself.

Sorry, Maya, but it wasn't exactly a pleasure cruise for me either. The quicker you stop shitting yourself, the quicker we don't have to do this.

Life is messy," Dr. Lau was fond of saying. "Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it.

What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time?

The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time.
How light.

He felt comfortable and broken-in like favourite jeans

Why are you crying?"
"I was reading.

The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want to know.

It's a well-known fact that hate shows up on your face once you're forty.

Take heart, Maya. As a bookseller, I assure you that prizewinning can be somewhat important for sales but rarely matters much in terms of quality.

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

Tomorrow," she said, "we try again. We fail again. We do better.

In my opinion, wounds are like water boiled
they heal best left unwatched.

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

The day my father shook my hand, I knew I was a writer.

If something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.

I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time

The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn't turned out to be.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn't live without him. Apparently I could.

He's got one thick book. He's in the middle of Infinite Jest. You ever heard of it?

When small wounds are left untreated, they can fest and become far more serious injuries. -Mr. Kipling

A.J. feels for the engagement ring in his pocket. Is this the moment? No, too Jumbotron.

I'm meant to love you, no matter how you act, no matter what you do? I couldn't respect myself if I felt that way.

There's something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

I don't believe in writer's block.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.'
Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?

What can a single man know about child rearing?

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

He settles on the Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth.

He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

No one travels without purpose. Those who are lost wish to be lost.

The only love she inspires is the canine kind.

My brain said no.

But my heart!

Sometimes, this good old world does not much care what you believe.

A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.

People like what they like, and that's the great and terrible thing.

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.

To begin, it is narrated by Death!

His eyes were blazing and I swear I could smell the testosterone coming off him.

A.J. has never changed a diaper in his life, though he is a modestly skilled gift wrapper.

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

No one, not even the rain has such soft hands.

How long does a dream have to last before it's just life?

It's easier to be happy than to be sad. Being sad takes alot of work. It's exhausting

Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind ...

It's difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything's changed.

They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

Showing up is what counts.

Good morning, magazines! Good morning, bookmarks! Good morning, books!

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a "single sitting" was longer back in his day. But I digress again.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

I love having sex with you," she says. "If you're a vegetable when this is done, can I still have sex with you?

Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story.

He had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

No Man Is An Island; Every Book Is A World.

But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things on it.

Every book is a world.

Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.

In the fifteen or so years he has known her, A.J. thinks Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.

You want less crime? Make it so there are less criminals.

From Nic's point of view, her older sister had been a primer on how not to live her life.

You know what they say. Cold hands. Warm heart," Yuji said. "Or is it the reverse?

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.

Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?

You don't choose a book the book chooses you

Fuck you. I like you. I'm used to you. You are the one, you asshole. I can't meet someone new.

But even a declawed tiger still has teeth..." -Anya

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.

As a form, the picture book has a similar elegance to the short story.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know."
"I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

Oh, you don't want to hear all my sad stories. I can't even bear to tell them anymore. Screw the past, right?

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

A.J. decides to call Lambiase. He suggests frozen shrimp from Costco, which A.J. now recognizes as Lambiase's default party-throwing suggestion.