“I think there is no difference between love and infatuation. If it works out, we call it love; if it doesn’t, we shrug our shoulders and say it was infatuation. It’s a hindsight word.”
Deborah Meyler“That thing that Hamlet says - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so". Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be true about love?”
Deborah Meyler“I think there is no difference between love and infatuation. If it works out, we call it love; if it doesn’t, we shrug our shoulders and say it was infatuation. It’s a hindsight word.”
Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore“It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.”
Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore“We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse -- checking texts and emails and Facebook every five minutes, always searching for that next hit of feeling, that next morsel of approval.”
Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore“It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.”
Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.”
Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore“People write for ego gratification, not money.”
Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore“Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.”
Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore“I never got int the library thing. I always liked that I could put my hand on a book when I wanted it. And to know I owned them”
that was important too.