The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry
by Gabrielle Levin
(Little, Brown, 2014)
Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more thingfs a chance.
Page 12.
What, in this life, is more personal than books?
Page 17.
The real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.
Page 18.
Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.
Page 25.
Once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.
Page 72.
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question: What is your favourite book?
Page 83.
Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.
Page 88.
There's something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.
Page 96.
Pretty much every bad thing in life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.
Page 99.
It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.
Page 149.
A place is not truly a place without a bookstore.
Page 190.
Everything new is not worse than everything old.
Page 201.
The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind.
Page 204.
The real gift of the holiday season is that it ends.
Page 209.
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are along. We read and we are not alone.
Page 235.
We are what we read.
Page 237.
Bookstores attract the right kind of folk.
Page 240.
A place ain't a place without a bookstore.
Page 241.