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Otherwise he stayed in the background, a small figure in a painting, while life was played out in the foreground. However,

Books can do many things, but not everything. We have to live the important things, not read them.

I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

There. Layer by layer, it appeared. Behind the wall of words......

Now. It is only ever now. So do it, you coward. Breathe underwater at last.

Rilke to wake up. I don't read any books in which women

As long as you can walk, you will find a walking stick. As long as you are brave, someone will help you.

I'll send you a friend request."
"You do that, sonny. I'm on the Internet every last Friday in the month, from eleven to three.

I understood your every thought. It was as if you knew me before I knew myself." Sanary-Samy

Oh well, a second drag couldn't do any harm.

It still comes a huge shock to me to discover that love doesn't need to be restricted to one person to be true.

A surprise visit? That's so romantic...but fairly risky."
"If you don't take any risks, life will bass you by," Cunco shipped in.

Anyone who's good at something is hated - or not loved in any case.

Perdu reflected that is was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people.

... love couldn't stop a woman from wishing to string up her husband because he was a serious pain in the neck.

it's a misconception that book sellers look after books, they look after people.

Memories are like wolves. You can't lock them away and hope they leave you alone.

The bookseller could not imagine what might be more practical than a book,

And he had found out that if he wanted to fly, he first had to jump.

I know all about men, but nothing about man.

Remain silent about the dead, and they'll never leave you in peace." Second,

Ritual of the Ashes," the Occitan prayer of the dead, which

I need to cry some more. I'll drown if I don't...Sometimes you're swimming in unwept tears and you'll go under if you store them up inside.

I don't believe that any question is too big, you simply have to tailor your answers.

Books aren't eggs, you know. Simply because a book has aged a bit doesn't mean it's gone bad.

Death doesn't matter
It makes no difference to life.
We will always remain what we were to each other.

One might have to be a little ruthless to seize back control of one's life, don't you think?

All right," she said. "Give me the books that are kind to me, and to hell with the men who don't give a damn about me.

It often turns out very differently to how you feared.

The further life advanced, the more protective the elderly were of their good days: nothing should imperil the time they had left.

Yes, when I feel afraid I want to go to sleep - the soul's refuge from panic. But

What's the point of knowing the date of your own death? I'd spend the rest of my life out of my mind with fear.

He had found beneath the sorrow a place where emotion and happiness could live alongside tenderness and the realization that he was lovable after all.

I like being alive, even if it's occasionally a real struggle and fairly pointless in the grand scheme of things.

The more important a thing is, the slower it should be done.

... books are a very recent means of expression in the broad sweep of history, capable of changing the world and toppling tyrants.

I can only breathe if I read,Perdue.

Shouldn't we carry on living the same way until the last, because that is what vexes death the most - to see us drinking life to the final draft?

He wished he could prop his fearful self up in a corner like a broom and walk away.

a book is both medic and medicine at once.

And it began when you first took a risk, failed and realized that you'd survived the failure. With that knowledge, you could risk anything. Marianne

We turn peculiar when we don't have anyone left to love.

The journey is over when you begin to love, thought Jean, as the two youngsters feasted their eyes on each other.

Asking questions is an art.

A wood that smells of the sea.

He had to ask these questions and then remain absolutely silent. Listening in silence was essential to making a comprehensive scan of a person's soul.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

Death is not free. Its price is life.

books, the only remedy for countless, undefined afflictions of the soul.

I need to make it difficult for myself, not for others: those are the rules for the fallen. Not

First, that one had to gaze upon the dead, cremate them and bury their ashes - and then begin to tell their story.

Paper is patient; authors never are.) At

Do you think only people in books do crazy things?

Dreams are the interface between the worlds, between time and space.

He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use. Leniency. Kindness. Contradiction. Forbearance.

He was overawed by her open, fearless affection. Was this why people liked friendship so much?

Star salt (the stars' reflection in a river) Sun cradle (the sea) Lemon kiss (everyone knew exactly what this meant!) Family anchor (the dinner table)

people; 'Manners like a creased polyester shirt

Reading - an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind.

She loved historical novels in which women dressed as men and outgrew their limited opportunities. And

Perdu and Cuneo gaped at creatures that seemed to have sprung from Middle Earth or Winterfell. Such is the power of books.

I wanted never to need anyone again. I'm such a coward. Monsieur

She was the world breathing.

Defiance: I see a little girl in pretend armour, fighting off all the things she doesn't want to be. Well

Nobody would ever wise up if they hadn't at some stage been young and stupid.

The first category comprised those for whom books were the only breath of fresh air in their claustrophobic daily lives. His favorite customers. They

Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.

We will always remain what we were to one another. Manon

She freed me from my misanthropy, silence and inhibitions. From my compulsion to only make the right moves.

And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!

Never listen to fear! Fear makes you stupid.

Incidentally, you really can scream with your heart; but it's incredibly painful.

Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth.

Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.

You only really get to know your husband when he walks out on you.

he didn't have the courage to trust someone again. To trust someone entirely because in love there is no other way. He

Samy was Samantha. She was wearing a white linen dress. She also had on hobbit feet, huge and extremely hairy ones.

The reality of love is better than its reputation.

Do we only decide in retrospect that we've been happy? Don't we notice when we're happy, or do we realize only much later that we were?

Any man who loves a woman as she deserves to be loved is a magician.

The bookseller read Catherine like a novel. She let him leaf through her and look through her story.

Often it's not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us." "You're a funny bookseller, you