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101 " What did you do?” “The best we could, within each moment we had. Isn’t that all we can? "
― Katherine Reay , The Printed Letter Bookshop
102 " Sure I will, but with my limited understanding, I’ve got him pegged close to Gandalf and I fall right beside him into the abyss. The Balrog gets us both. "
103 " Altijd voorbereid op vrees, maar hopend op verafgoding... "
― Katherine Reay , Dear Mr. Knightley
104 " En Mr.Knightley, vergeet mijn theorie over Icarus maar. Als je niet hoog vliegt, met het risico dat je neerstort en verbrandt, leef je dan eigenlijk wel? Kun je dan wel liefhebben? Ik betwijfel het. Ik ben klaar om te vliegen. "
105 " I loved it at first sight. It has hardwood floors, a bedroom and bathroom and a tiny kitchen that opens onto the living room. Huge windows let in the dappled sunlight and made a dance of light and shadows across the floors. It's perfect and it's mine. And it's yellow. The way pale yellow should look, like sunshine and butter, mixed with hope and cream. "
106 " And it felt sad, as if the shop itself had just realized that what lay ahead could never be better than what lay behind. "
107 " my best friends. He got a kick out of being in my book. "
108 " Who goes to London and doesn’t see the Tower, the London Eye, Buckingham Palace, the Princess Diana Playground, Piccadilly Circus, or take in a West End show and eat dim sum for lunch in Chinatown? "
― Katherine Reay , The London House
109 " believe God can do tremendous things through you—once you stop trying to wield all the power yourself. "
110 " It’s a welcoming house. "
111 " She wanders around the shop, through the customers, talking to no one and touching the spines of books as if asking them to share their secrets. "
112 " It’s like you live in those classics you love, in some odd third-person narration, as if you aren’t in charge of your own story. "
113 " In the Midst of Winter Harry Potter Anna Karenina War and Peace Dr. Zhivago The Secret Garden Flowers in the Attic The Giver Gathering Blue The Hunger Games The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Lord of the Rings The Girl on the Train The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge The Catcher in the Rye The Outsiders Lord of the Flies "
114 " Fahrenheit 451 The Brothers Karamazov The Horse and His Boy Unbroken Seabiscuit The Life of Pi Persuasion All the Light We Cannot See Pride and Prejudice The World of Winnie-the-Pooh “To a Mouse” A Christmas Carol A Wrinkle in Time Anne of Green Gables Gone Girl 1984 Inkheart "
115 " Cinder Slaughterhouse-Five Becoming Mrs. Lewis Diary of a Wimpy Kid Buffalo Before Breakfast (Magic Tree House #18) Magnolia Table The Apothecary A Year in Provence Under the Tuscan Sun House of Spies The Paris Architect The Joy Luck Club Little Dorrit A Man Called Ove Nine Women, One Dress Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking "
116 " The Four Loves Killers of the Flower Moon Crazy Rich Asians The Screwtape Letters Rebecca Martha Stewart’s Homekeeping Handbook Sense and Sensibility Number the Stars The Awakening of Miss Prim The Hiding Place Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler Animal Farm Alice in Wonderland All Quiet on the Western Front And Then There Were None Antony and Cleopatra "
117 " The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand "
118 " Sometimes, before I fall asleep or when I catch a piece of music that lifts my soul, I envision another way to live, like that moment last night when the setting sun hit the top of that rise and the leaves glowed. They were alight with life, and it lasted only a moment. That’s when I suspect I’ve gotten it wrong and I’ve wasted my time, tilting at windmills–not anticipating the unexpected or being present enough to recognize it.~ A Portrait of Emily Price by Katherine Reay, p. 178 "
― Katherine Reay , A Portrait of Emily Price
119 " There is something so decadent about a kiss; kissing for itself, not as foreplay or a gateway to anything else. Kissing like it is the first time, the last time, and the only connection we'll ever have -- that kind of kissing. "
120 " ...there is more that matters in a life than what happens in a moment, or on this earth; that it often isn't the events that haunt us, though those hold power and can harm us, it is the choices we make within those events we carry all our days. "