The storied life of a j fikry Quotes

“There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.”

“No one will ever love me that much again.”

“We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.”

“The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.”

“The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind...”

“You don't choose a book the book chooses you”

“That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'm feeling," Amelia says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'd like to be feeling.”

“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who wrote it must be there. That you couldn't write such beautiful things and have such an ugly heart. But that is the truth. He was a beautiful writer and a terrible person.”

“Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.”