Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop Quotes
We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.
It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.
Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.
There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.
Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.
We are loved if we love, another truth we always seem to forget. ...Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.
Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.
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.
And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.
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.
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.
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.
