Pages & Co The Bookwanderers Quotes

Books can change minds and change worlds, open doors and open minds, and plant seeds that can grow into magical or even terrifying things. Stories are things to be loved and respected at the same time; never underestimate the power of them.

Friends should bring out the best in you, not be the same as you. I’m sure you’re someone’s perfect fit.

The books we love when we’re growing up shape us in a special way, Tilly. The characters in the books we read help us decide who we want to be.

Some people see a bookshop as an archive, or a shrine, or even a time machine. But I think a bookshop is like a map of the world. There are infinite paths you can take through it and none of them are right or wrong. Here in a bookshop we give readers landmarks to help them find their way, but every reader has to learn to set their own compass.

So nowadays I try to make a little more space for the impossible to happen.

Are the things in your imagination less real than the things in front of you? Is this rose more real than you? Do the books you've read mean less to you because they haven't really happened to you? Do daydreams at midday or nightdreams at midnight mean nothing?

Well, I've listened to the audiobook, if that counts.' 'It definitely counts,' Tilly said.

Tilly sometimes felt like there had been a lesson where friendship had been explained, but she’d been out sick and had never quite been able to catch up.

A bit of nonsense never hurt anyone ...

Often characters in books are considerably more consistent than the people around us. All that messy life stuff does rather get in the way.

…because stories last much longer than we do. Our stories are how we will be remembered – so we’ve got to make sure they are worth telling.

bookshop is like a map of the world.

. . . because the writer is saying that our dreams and our stories matter. I think it's quite beautiful that you can read the whole book as Alice telling her sister a story. And then Alice's sister is thinking about passing on the story to their future children, because stories last much longer than we do. Our stories are how we will be remembered - so we've got to make sure they are worth telling.

I think a bookshop is like a map of the world. There are infinite paths you can take through it and none of them are right or wrong. Here in a bookshop we give readers landmarks to help them find their way, but every reader has to learn to set their own compass.

I'm not sure best friends are a one-size-fits-all sort of situation, Tilly,' Grandad said carefully. 'Sometimes a person who becomes a friend is the least likely person you'd expect. friends should bring out the best in you, not be the same as you. I'm sure you're someone's perfect fit.

You’re so much like her, Matilda. I don’t want to make you feel like Harry Potter, but you really do have her eyes,’ Amelia said, and Oskar struggled to suppress a giggle.

LEGERE EST PEREGRINARI

Well, I've listened to the audiobook, if that counts.' 'It definietly counts,' Tilly said.

I guess a book about a nice safe place where nothing happens would be kind of boring and no one would read it.

But we're all anomalies in one way or another - it's what makes being alive beautiful. We're more than neat plot devices; we're contradictory and confusing, and it's wonderful. There's nothing wrong with a few contradictions, and I think you might have to embrace them, as it would already seem that there are going to be some unpredictable side effects caused by your dad being fictional.

. . . but the baddies are more interesting sometimes, don't you think? Or the heroes who aren't always very heroic. People who do the right thing for the wrong reasons or the wrong thing for the right reasons.

Books can change minds and change worlds, open doors and open minds, and plant seeds that can grow into magical or even terrifying things. Stories are things to be loved and respected at the same time; never underestimate the power of them.

Well, is Wonderland really real at all? Is Wonderland more real than where Alice has come from, or where you have come from? You're both visitors to the land, and who's to say which or where or who has the greatest claim on reality?" the cat said.

Legere est Peregrinari.” “What does that mean?” Tilly said, pointing. “It’s Latin,” Grandad explained. “It doesn’t have an easy English translation, but the verb peregrinor means to travel about, to roam or to wander, so it essentially means ‘to read is to wander.’ It’s the motto of the Underlibrary.

She was sure she hadn’t seen their cab swerve in the road to avoid hitting someone, but she was also learning that once you were inside a book anything was possible.

… you can’t wait for adventure to find you… You must go and find adventure, and shake it firmly by the hand as you set out towards the horizon together.

People are good at not noticing things that don’t affect them.

Stories enhance our lives; they shouldn’t replace them.

Books can change minds and change worlds, open doors and open minds, plant seeds that can grow into magical or even terrifying things. Stories are things to be loved and respected at the same time; never underestimate the power of them. It's why books are often casualties of censorship; those who ban or burn books are those who are scared of what can be found among their pages.

And that is where we leave Pages & Co, reader. But what’s that? Do you feel something strange in the pit of your stomach, like the feeling when you go over the top of a roller coaster? Do you hear the click-clack of a world building itself around you? Can you smell something on the air? Something smoky and sweet, almost like marshmallows toasting on a bonfire? Hold on tight, bookwanderer. For when you are a reader, there is always a new adventure to start. The End. The Beginning.

Someone who sticks by you; someone who never gets bored of talking to you. Someone who’s adventurous, and clever, and brave, and funny . . .” Tilly said, checking her criteria off on her fingers.

You said yourself that you want to be more curious.

Why, you can’t wait for adventure to find you, Matilda,” Anne said. “You must go and find adventure, and shake it firmly by the hand as you set out toward the horizon together.

Well, you never know what you might find, being in the wrong place at the right time,

Be brave, be curious, be kind . . .” Tilly said quietly.

You mean the sort of situation where you find out you live in a magical bookshop and you can talk to your favorite characters?

You know when you walk into a bookshop and you see all those thousands of books lined up in front of you? That intoxicating feeling of knowing that behind each cover is a different world to explore, like thousands of tiny portals? That adrenaline rush just before you open a new book? The thrill of being surrounded by fellow book lovers? That is what fuels bookwandering, and it comes to life in bookshops.

Our stories are how we will be remembered—so we’ve got to make sure they are worth telling.

I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.

I'm not sure best friends are a one-size-fits-all sort of situation, Tilly,' Grandad said carefully. 'Sometimes a person who becomes a friend is the least likely person you'd expect. Friends should bring out the best in you, not be the same as you. I'm sure you're someone's perfect fit.

Grandad was always hunting in charity shops for copies that had someone's name in, or messages from people who had given books as presents. 'I love thinking about other people reading the books I love, or why someone gave that book as a present - those names and messages are like tiny moments of time travel linking readers from different eras and families and even countries.

Legere est Peregrinari.

And what exactly makes someone best-friend material?” Grandad asked. “Someone who sticks by you; someone who never gets bored of talking to you. Someone who’s adventurous, and clever, and brave, and funny . . .” Tilly said, checking her criteria off on her fingers. “Someone like Anne Shirley or Alice from Wonderland—those are my favorite characters, incidentally.” With very few exceptions Tilly found that she much preferred the company of characters in her books to most of the people she knew in real life.

Grandad was always hunting in charity shops for copies that had someone’s name in, or messages from people who had given books as presents. “I love thinking about other people reading the books I love, or why someone gave that book as a present—those names and messages are like tiny moments of time travel linking readers from different eras and families and even countries.

Trouble always starts when you are out of proportion with who you are talking to.

But we’re all anomalies in one way or another—it’s what makes being alive beautiful. We’re more than neat plot devices: we’re contradictory and confusing, and it’s wonderful.

Be brave, be curious, be kind. This is from the book Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James. I think it is a good way to live one's life. :)

It's about creating a record of who's read and loved each book. I love thinking about other people reading the books I love, or why someone gave that book as a present - those names and messages are like tiny moments of time travel linking readers from different eras and families and even countries. (This is the Grandad talking to Tilly about finding books with written notes in them or a book owner's name written on the inside of the book. I like think that way as well). :)