156 Quotes by Cath Crowley

The bookstore is a building, but it’s not only the building. It is the books inside. People are not only their bodies. And if there is no hope of saving the things we love in their original form, we must save them however we can.

Remember Love doesn’t make the world go round Sex makes it spin for a second or two If you’re lucky So do chips, sausage rolls and girls in short skirts Remember Love Lays its fingers on your heart And holds it Under water Remember that When the next girl smiles.

I hate the thought that you might forget and remember, forget and remember. I think that must be exhausting. You have my phone number, any time you require me to carry you home in a storm.

Secondhand books are haunted, according to him. Ghosts in the pages.

I guess love’s kind of like a marshmallow in a microwave on high. After it explodes it’s still a marshmallow. but, you know, now it’s a complicated marshmallow.

Memory can transmigrate, from the dead to the living.

I spray the sky fast. Eyes ahead and behind. Looking for cops. Looking for anyone I don’t want to be here. Paint sails and the things that kick in my head scream from can to brick. See this, see this. See me emptied onto a wall.

Jazz tells Lucy to relax and tries to kick her under the table. I know this because she kicks me instead. “Aim more to the left,” I tell her, and she has another go. “Farther left,” I say, and enjoy watching her hit the target a couple of times.

You were right. Real is better. The truth is better. It makes you feel kind of stupid, but it’s better.