Lucy Gilmore

Library of Borrowed Hearts

✨"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them," he said as if reciting a quote. It only took me a second to realize that a quote was exactly right. "The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.'"

✨Books were always trying to teach us that the power of love could overcome any hardship and that money didn't buy happiness. In many ways, I believed those things to be true—I really did.

"You're not wrong about that," Lonnie allowed, her lips pursed with sudden thoughtfulness. "I've never seen anyone handle a man the way Catherine did Jasper. She took one look at him, decided she wanted him, and then didn't stop until she had him on his knees. You two could learn a thing or two from her."

✨With any luck, Catherine would see the message and understand: that he was a man who felt things too much, too quickly; that every day was a struggle to find the balance between what the world expected of him and what his heart demanded of himself.

✨He’d forgotten how it felt. To hold a book in your hands and know that everything would turn out okay in the end, to lose yourself in someone else's story...

✨"You know, the thing I've always loved most about books is how they make it possible to live a thousand different lives," she said, speaking as though my heart wasn't leaking out all over my face and dripping onto her expensive purse. "Things in this world rarely go according to plan, and we often find ourselves on roads and in cities we never planned to visit, let alone stay in forever. I take comfort from knowing that I can always pick up a book—a new one, if I want to travel someplace unique; an old one, if I find myself in need of a friend-and make everything feel right again."

Mariaaa

✨"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them," he said as if reciting a quote. It only took me a second to realize that a quote was exactly right. "The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.'"

✨Books were always trying to teach us that the power of love could overcome any hardship and that money didn't buy happiness. In many ways, I believed those things to be true—I really did.

✨She knew exactly how to handle him."

"You're not wrong about that," Lonnie allowed, her lips pursed with sudden thoughtfulness. "I've never seen anyone handle a man the way Catherine did Jasper. She took one look at him, decided she wanted him, and then didn't stop until she had him on his knees. You two could learn a thing or two from her."

✨With any luck, Catherine would see the message and understand: that he was a man who felt things too much, too quickly; that every day was a struggle to find the balance between what the world expected of him and what his heart demanded of himself.

✨He’d forgotten how it felt. To hold a book in your hands and know that everything would turn out okay in the end, to lose yourself in someone else's story...

✨"You know, the thing I've always loved most about books is how they make it possible to live a thousand different lives," she said, speaking as though my heart wasn't leaking out all over my face and dripping onto her expensive purse. "Things in this world rarely go according to plan, and we often find ourselves on roads and in cities we never planned to visit, let alone stay in forever. I take comfort from knowing that I can always pick up a book—a new one, if I want to travel someplace unique; an old one, if I find myself in need of a friend-and make everything feel right again."

Library of Borrowed Hearts

Reviews