Charlie Lovett Quotes

#1. AS A CHILD, I had an unquenchable thirst for novels," said Jane,

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#2. She read the letter again and tried to imagine what it would feel like to be so desperate for a response that you would drop all sense of dignity and propriety and dash from the house at the first sight of the postman.

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#3. A literary mystery, a damsel in distress, and his rival deposed. If that doesn't get him here then he's not much of a knight in shining armor.

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#4. He only kissed her and she kissed him and her knees went weak and her heart raced and she thought for a moment that she saw fireworks.

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#5. It was as if a part of her mind dwelt in him and a part of his mind dwelt in her, and when she was separated from him a part of herself was missing.

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#6. Anyway, a man who buys a woman a book this nice is looking to be more than just an acquaintance.

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#7. I embellish the truth of their lives with the lies of my imagination.

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#8. That must be something to discover a book that nobody's ever heard of or everybody thought was lost."
"It's every bibliophile's dream," said Francis, and Peter knew in a second that it was his own.

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#9. The best way to learn about books, ... is to spend time with them, talk about them, defend them.

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#10. What he wanted was to find that world-within-the-world where he could be himself by himself.

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#11. But though that love was engraved on her heart, she did not have the words to explain its nature.

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#12. I was always scared to meet people. Scared or maybe lazy.

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#13. Like a subscription to a magazine, thought Peter. The period during which I am allowed to be happy has expired.

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#14. King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about.

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#15. They did not speak of the future; they merely lived in the present. It was a perfect summer.

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#16. The ladies in my family have always known what to do in a roomful of rare books.

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#17. The gifts of God are rarely what we expect.

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#18. said Sophie, "and I'll give you a call." "I'll be waiting by the phone," said Winston. "You carry your phone in your pocket," she teased. "Yes, well, that proves it, then." -

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#19. Novel writing seems an altogether less intimidating occupation when one considers that one only need produce a small tale.

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#20. So are you lonely, or just a loner?

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#21. Unlikely is not the same as impossible,

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#22. This is the first book edition. Without the mold it would have cost me twice as much." "You've

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#23. Every muscle in his body seemed to be crying out to him--- she thinks this is a date; don't lead her on. Yet in spite of this, Peter found himself saying, ' I like your hair

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#24. He embraced the ache. It reminded him that Amanda was real. For the first time in his life, he knew exactly what he was aching for.

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#25. Scrooge replied that the calendar was an arbitrary governor of a man's life and that the new year began anew whenever one decided to live his life in a new way.

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#26. ...he pulled on his coat and stepped into the darkness for a walk up to the village shop. He found walking to the shop once or twice a day to buy food as needed a comforting routine.

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