Quotes About Community

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

There's something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

the more I believe that this is what the point of it all is. To connect, my dear little nerd. Only connect.

Other people's parents are often a delight.

Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people." Simon turned to

Bookstores attract the right kind of folk.

I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.

The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want to know.

Turns out I really like bookstores. You know, I meet a lot of people in my line of work. A lot of folks pass through Alice Island, especially in the summer. I've seen movie people on vacation and I've seen music people and newspeople, too. There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewoman.

And as any mixed-race person will tell you — to be half of two things is to be a whole of nothing.

We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.

Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people.

Marx's life had been filled with such abundance that he was one of those people who found it natural to care for those around him.

Alabaster eyed Emily's still growing stomach. "How many months are you along now?" "Perhaps eleven. I'm not sure. Soon, I shall be able to roll from Upper Foglands to town." "I feel you have lived here longer than eleven months, and you were with child when you arrived. Is it possible your unborn child is waiting for you to be married?" "No, I could never have a child so conventional," Emily said.

The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

The thing I find profoundly hopeful when I'm feeling despair is to imagine people playing, to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players.

En stad är ingen stad utan en bokhandel (en variant ursprungligen från "Amerikanska gudar" av Neil Gaiman)

Emily was five months pregnant when she decided to open the bookstore. Friendship didn't have one, and it would be a way for Emily to read more and farm less. She sold off her farm equipment at a 50 percent loss and she rented out her unused land to Alabaster. Emily allocated most of her remaining gold to the construction of a small building in town. She named the store Friendship Books.

Zweisamkeit" é a sensação de estar sozinho mesmo quando se está com outras pessoas. [...] Senti isso tantas vezes que pensei que isso era parte da vida. Que estar vivo era aceitar que estamos todos essencialmente sozinhos.

There's no game without the NPCs," you tell him. "There's just some bullshit hero, wandering around with no one to talk to and nothing to do.

Like Sam, I once lived in a house up a hill from the Happy Foot Sad Foot sign. The Happy Foot Sad Foot sign was taken down in 2019, but I am told you can still find its remains in a gift shop somewhere in Silver Lake.

We read to know were not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.