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“I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.” ~Atticus "Fly" by Ancor Gil Art (ancorgil.deviantart.com)

Do one thing every day that makes you happy.

“Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.” ~John Wayne

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. ~Rumi Ink Drawing sketch by Emanuel M. Ologeanu

"I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there." ~Jack McBrayer “Summer Fun” by Amos Sewell (1902-1983) for The Saturday Evening Post, 1955.

🙃❤️📚 I can quit anytime I want to.

"Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves." ~Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat "Journey" Artist Anna Warda

🖤✒️📖 “This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.” ~A. A. Milne

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” ~Madeleine L'Engle

🙃❤️📚 Prioritizing yourself is essential. The unselfish art of prioritizing yourself is crucial for your happiness.

🙃❤️📚 If you need to fill in your Brian Freeman collection.

🙃❤️📚⛱️ “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.” ~Charlaine Harris "Book Stall on Turre Market" Spain, by ©Miki de Goodaboom (mikidegoodaboom.com)

🌾 “The books we read as children shape our understanding of the world and our place in it.” ~Marilynne Robinson

🙃❤️📚 This is what I get to do for a living. #fantastic #bookseller

🔭🐭 ”Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell not stuff to show.” ~Unknown Lev Kaplan’s Illustration for the German Children’s book “Eisbjörn“ (the incredible adventure of a brave mouse) by Max and Lev Kaplan (kaplan-art.de)

❤️📖🐯 “Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.” ~Lemony Snicket Illustration by Yusuke Yonezu (yonezoo.com) @yusuke_yonezu

📚🙃📖📙📘📗📕📒📚 Of course, we're going to buy more before finishing the books we already own. (So please stop asking)

🖤✒️📖 “If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.” ~Edgar Rice Burroughs

⏳🔍 “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler (1976). First published in 1939. The Big Sleep is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. Here in the shop.