The Lost and Found Bookshop Quotes

“You’ll never be happy with what you want until you
can be happy with what you’ve got.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“..."books were alive in a special way. Between the covers, characters are living their lives, enacting their dramas, falling in and out of love...Even sitting closed on a shelf, a book had a life of its own. When someone opened the book, that was when the magic happened.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Listen—are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live. —Tuck Everlasting”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“A fresh eddy of sadness washed over Natalie, and she shuddered with emotional pain. When would the tears stop? When would the pain subside? It wasn’t like a headache or illness that could be cured by swallowing a pill. No, this ache of missing and regret felt like a constant, incurable condition.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“My really smart mom used to say there'd be things in life I don't like, but's that no reason to stop liking life.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“I’ve always believed there’s something magical about a book. A bundle of paper and ink that can change your life.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“was gone, suddenly and irretrievably, like a zephyr shooting into the night sky, leaving a trail of moonlit particles that swirled in brief, unspeakable beauty, and then faded into nothing.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“If you like cool, funny entertainment, you might like this one. It's a first novel by a local author." She handed him a copy of Practical Demonkeeping. "A very different kind of buddy novel. I thought it was hilarious."
"You're reading me like a book." The guy shook his head as if embarrassed by his own lame joke. Then he looked over at Blythe. Natalie saw his gaze move swiftly over her mother's red V-neck sweater and short skirt. "How can you tell that's exactly what would make me happy?" he asked.
Oh boy. He was flirting. Guys did that a lot with her mom. She was super pretty, and Natalie knew it wasn't only because Mom was her mom and all kids thought their moms were pretty. Even her snottiest friends like Kayla said Blythe looked like a model. Like Julia Roberts. Plus, her mom had a knack for dressing cool and being social---she could talk to anyone and make them like her.
Also, she had a superpower, which was on full display right now. She had the ability to see a person for the first time and almost instantly know what book to recommend. She was really smart and had also read every book ever written, or so it seemed to Natalie. She could talk to high school kids about Ivanhoe and Silas Marner. She ran a mystery discussion group. She could tell people the exact day the new Mary Higgins Clark novel would come out. She knew which kids would only ever read Goosebumps books, no matter what, and she knew which kids would try something else, like Edward Eager or Philip Pullman.
Sometimes people didn't know anything about the book they were searching for except "It's blue with gold page edges" and her mom would somehow figure it out.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“A strange lightness enveloped her as she drove to her apartment, past the shady village green, the trendy shops and cafés and galleries and tasting rooms. Her favorite spot in town was the White Rabbit Bookstore with a sign over the door----FEED YOUR HEAD.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“When she was very small, her mother used to tell her that books were alive in a special way. Between the covers, characters were living their lives, enacting their dramas, falling in and out of love, finding trouble, working out their problems. Even sitting closed on a shelf, a book had a life of its own. When someone opened the book, that was when the magic happened.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“When tragedy strikes, I must remember to breathe until I get to the fun part again.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“ear. “Listen, we have our health, and a roof over our heads, food to eat, and books to read. We’re doing okay, kiddo.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Natalie reminded herself to savor the deep, rich wine and the glorious colors of the gathering sunset. She had a good life. A good job. A good friend.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“She took down The Once and Future King and found a marked passage: “The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.” “There you have it,” Natalie said to the cat. “My plan for the day.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“When she stepped into the shop that evening, she felt an emptiness so vast that she almost couldn’t breathe. Everything had drained out of her. “It’s exhausting, isn’t it?” asked Grandy. “A sadness like this. It’s physically exhausting.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Unlike men, books were easy. They filled you with all the emotions in the world—joy, dread, fear, hurt, gratification—and then they came to an end. People were different. Unpredictable. Impossible to manage.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“The moon garden of the mansion was famous, having been designed with night-blooming flowers lining the pathways and hillocks of the landscape. They stepped through open doors, went down the wide stone steps, and were greeted by the heady perfume of late-blooming autumn flowers. The pale blossoms were lit from below, setting a mood of mystery. A fountain of natural stone rose up out of a pond surrounded by terra-cotta sculptures.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“the best ideas are big ideas that come straight from your gut, not your head. Ideas that give you big feelings.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“A book, too, can be a star . . . a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. —Madeleine L’Engle”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“I'm heading over to visit Tess for some tea and sympathy."
"I don't like tea," Ollie said. "What's sympathy taste like?"
Natalie laughed and ruffled his hair, then got back in the car. "Like a melted marshmallow with chocolate sauce.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Seeing him amid the yellow leaves and berry-colored hips of the spent roses, and the fading hollyhocks gone to seed along the garden wall, filled her heart.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“I see her in my dreams,” he said. “Every night.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Autumn was San Francisco's summer. The days were bright and warm, scented with drying leaves and fading flowers and the ever-present salt air.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Cleo was like those little bluebirds of happiness in Cinderella, flitting around until Natalie had been transformed into a princess. A fraudulent one, to be sure, but a princess nonetheless.
The silk dress from her mother's closet had been transformed into a couture masterpiece by the sartorial skills of Cleo's talented aunt. The sheath now fit like an extremely flattering glove. Its color, and the bright handwork accents, echoed the colors of the precious vase---jade green, turquoise, marigold, and fuchsia with veins of cobalt blue. She paired it with the gold-heeled sandals, the vintage watch, and a gold snake belt borrowed from Cleo.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Blythe's favorite shelf near the coffee area. She'd labeled it W.O.W. (WORDS OF WISDOM) and it was stocked with her perennial favorites with bookmarked passages.
Natalie used to love browsing that shelf. A book would never betray you or change its mind or make you feel stupid. She took down The Once and Future King and found a marked passage: "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails."”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“You’re never alone when you’re reading a book,”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop