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It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read. Books that had already been read were the best.Katarina Bivald
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We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy booksKatarina Bivald
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For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.Katarina Bivald
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Sara couldn't help but think that she had somehow missed the moment when life was meant to begin. For a long time she had simply drifted through it, reading. While everyone around her was teenaged, unhappy, and foolish, this hadn't been a problem. But then suddenly everyone had grown up around her, and she had done nothing but read.Katarina Bivald
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Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.Katarina Bivald
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There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.Katarina Bivald
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As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.Katarina Bivald
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That which didn't kill them made them stranger.Katarina Bivald
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She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.Katarina Bivald
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...nowadays, everyone seemed to be dreaming of absolutely everything. Traveling and loving and having a fantastic career and a happy family, all while being thin, beautiful, popular, and in touch with their spiritual side.Katarina Bivald
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One of the most difficult things when you were trying to navigate the world of books was dealing with all the unreliable authors. They were so unbelievably tricky to keep track of. An author might write a brilliant book, only to follow it up with something utterly mediocre. Or, and this was almost worse, one might have written a brilliant book but then turn out to be dead. Then there were those authors who started a series but never finished it.Katarina Bivald
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This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it–so few people, so many opinions?Katarina Bivald