The Bookshop on the Corner

Let us read, and let us dance;
these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

It would be lovely, wouldn’t it, whenever you’re going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, “Don’t worry, it’s completely worth it.

Poetry is good for people who are in strange lands,

The world’s your oyster.

have to hold on to my safe job—sounded feeble and pathetic.

Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can’t fix anything. And your life might turn out to be full of regrets

Books had been her solace when she was sad, her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it was broken, and encouraged her to hope when she was down.

whenever reality, or the grimmer side of reality, threatened to invade, she always turned to a book.

The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things.

the sheer hardship of being in such proximity to someone who had made her feel so much.