The Cinnamon Bun Book Store Quotes

“He was summer and she was fall. He was adventure and she was comfort. But right now, on the cusp between the two seasons, in this liminal space they’d carved out for themselves, they fit just right.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I was prepared to read every damn book in that bookstore just to spend more time with you.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I always bring a book, just in case.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Maybe she hadn’t needed to change her life, maybe she’d just needed to change how she saw her life. How she saw herself.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“You brought a book.’ ‘Of course I did.’ His mouth tipped up in the corner, unable to resist the little smirk on her face. ‘Of course you did.’ ‘I always bring a book, just in case.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Because what more did one need besides good friends, good books, and the occasional cinnamon bun?”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Hazel wasn’t her job or her curls or her cute button-up blouses. She was the tart spark of blueberries on his tongue, she was salt air and rainy days, she was the perfect book. She was kisses and secret smiles. She was everything. He just needed her.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I am not! I just prefer to be inside. I’m an inside cat.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Will you be my best friend?’ the fox asked the rabbit. ‘But we’re so different,’ said the rabbit. ‘That’s why I like you.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“She liked her bookstore. She liked cups of chamomile tea and rainy days and the Sunday morning crossword puzzle. She liked her quiet life.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“she was salt air and rainy days, she was the perfect book. She was kisses and secret smiles. She was everything.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“He’d read just one more chapter and then deal with his own shit...”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Noah was still looking at her and another mosquito landed on her thigh. What fresh hell was this?”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I think I’ve had plenty of fun for one night. I should probably get to bed.’ ‘Haze, it’s nine o’clock.’ ‘I’m tired.’ ‘Haze, nine o’clock is an old-lady bedtime.’ ‘I’m an old lady.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“It was a slow day, bright and sunny, the type of day people wanted to be running around outside, not browsing the shelves of a bookstore. Not that Hazel understood that line of reasoning. She always wanted to be browsing the shelves of a bookstore.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“She was watching him now, her big eyes taking him in like she always did. She looked at him like maybe he didn't come up short in her eyes. Hazel was the one person in his life who looked at him and he didn't feel like she was searching for something that wasn't there. And God, wasn't that addictive? That feeling that maybe you were good enough.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“lost-in-your-favorite-book good, sun-on-your-face good, the-perfect-cup-of–coffee good.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“She tucked her legs up closer to her body while Noah tried to shoo the lizard from their cabana. The little green monster just blinked at him, wildly unimpressed with his hand flapping.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“close.’ She tucked her legs up closer to her body while Noah tried to shoo the lizard from their cabana. The little green monster just blinked at him, wildly unimpressed with his hand flapping.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Hazel wasn’t her job or her curls or her cute button-up blouses. She was the tart spark of blueberries on his tongue, she was salt air and rainy days, she was the perfect book. She was kisses and secret smiles.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Sweet and a little spicy, like Hazel.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Getting out of your comfort zone was by definition, uncomfortable. And if these last few weeks had taught her anything, it was that good things came from being a little bit unsafe, by taking a few risks now and then.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“She didn’t need a new life or to be a new person. She just needed to look at herself, at her life, in a new light.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Jullie zijn allebei volkomen verblind door orgasmes.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Hij was zomer en zij was herfst. Hij was avontuur en zij was gezelligheid. Maar op dit moment, op de grens tussen twee seizoenen, in de beperkte plaats die ze hadden gecreëerd, pasten ze perfect bij elkaar.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“But,’ she went on, ‘being the neighborhood crazy, book lady who thinks the books are talking to her so she plans the last two months of her twenties around them . . . is definitely embarrassing.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“She stood there on the edge of the garden, darkness creeping in around the edges of the sky, and felt every bit her age. She wasn’t in high school anymore, or college. She couldn’t go back and change the past and she didn’t want to, not really. But in the months leading up to her birthday, she wanted to step outside herself. To let go. To be young and fun and twenty-something before it was too late.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“For some people, Hazel assumed, thirty meant an end to the wild and storied days of their twenties. A time to settle down, to get serious, to be an adult. Hazel had a different problem with thirty. She’d forgotten to have wild and storied days. Her twenties had been ... calm? Responsible? Boring. Hazel had essentially been in her thirties since she was fifteen.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Hazel was everything. Hazel was getting lost-in-your-favorite-book good, sun-on-your-face good, the-perfect-cup-of–coffee good.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“I always bring a book, just in case.’ ‘Just in case of what?’ ‘Just in case the person I wanted to see gets very busy doing his job and I have to wait to talk to him.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store