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The Bookshop of Yesterdays QUOTES

The Bookshop of Yesterdays QUOTES

1 " Every day has a past. Every day has a tomorrow. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

2 " The law’s a profession of the written word. Do you know what most lawyers want to be? Writers. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

3 " Every family has its unspoken stories. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

4 " (T)hat's the thing about probability, however unlikely. There is always a chance. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

5 " Sadness is like a maze. You make some mistakes along the way, but eventually you find your way out. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

6 " It's difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

7 " It helps, knowing we’re still happy somewhere. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

8 " I needed to give myself a chance, too. ...not to be burdened by the past but to know it farther, to prepare for the future. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

9 " Every time I came home, Dad’s hair had grown more salt than pepper, his olive skin more leathered, his blue eyes grayer. It made me want to clutch his hand and beg him to stop getting old. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

10 " Understanding prepares us for the future. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

11 " You don’t have to like your family, you only have to love them. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

12 " People sell aging as graceful. Because the process happens slowly, we’re encouraged to embrace it as we would an aria. You can accept aging with dignity and civility, but the daily injustices of growing old have very little music to them.”
The Bookshop of Yesterdays, Chapter 22. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

13 " Charlie sang as he filled the display case with muffins. The scene reminded me of Mom, how her song commenced with the opening of the cookbook and continued until the meal was plated. If I asked her what she was humming, she’d quiet, surprised that the sound existed outside her head. I’d stopped pointing out the melodies of her meals. It was the only time I got to hear her sing. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

14 " To the nights we’ll never remember with friends we’ll never forget, "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

15 " I watched my oldest friend, the friends I’d recently made, the people who knew me before I knew myself. Yesterday’s Bookshop belonged to them as much as it did to me, but Prospero Books was Billy’s. Evelyn’s. We were giving the store a chance to survive. I needed to give myself a chance, too. It’s what Prospero had wanted for his Miranda, not to be burdened by the past but to know it farther, to prepare for the future. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

16 " a pet, like any relationship, was about accountability, not love. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

17 " Maybe we couldn’t return to what we always were to each other because we’d never been as close as I’d assumed we were. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

18 " As you from your crimes would pardon’d be, Let your indulgence set me free. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

19 " Billy never completely grasped that other people were as real as he was. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays

20 " I deprived my love of the thing she wanted most. Growing up, Evelyn never had family dinners, holidays, movie nights. I took the possibility of that from her when I failed to make the house safe. When I failed to keep her safe. I told myself that I didn’t know how to keep you safe, either, that I didn’t deserve to create a family without Evelyn. "

― Amy Meyerson , The Bookshop of Yesterdays