Top 40 Ellery Adams Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. – Ray Bradbury.”

— Ellery Adams

2. “Life ain’t always easy and it ain’t always fair, but there’s beauty in every day. You just gotta know where to look.”

— Ellery Adams

3. “It’s always that way when you’re looking at books. An hour goes by in a minute: you don’t know where the hell the time went. – John Dunning.”

— Ellery Adams

4. “Not all secrets were meant to be shared.”

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5. “She planned to fix herself a cup of lemon-ginger tea and pick a book from the stack on her coffee table. It didn’t matter which title she chose, every book had something unique to offer. They were memories she’d yet to make. Worlds she’d yet to discover. Friends she’d yet to meet. And she was looking forward to making their acquaintance.”

— Ellery Adams

6. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. – WALT DISNEY.”

— Ellery Adams

7. “Stories are just like people. If you don’t approach them with an open mind and a healthy dose of respect, they won’t reveal their hidden selves to you. In that event, you’ll miss out on what they have to offer. You’ll walk through life an empty husk instead of a vibrant kaleidoscope of passion, wisdom, and experience.”

— Ellery Adams

8. “Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?”

— Ellery Adams

9. “Words have power, and all things of power are dangerous.”

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10. “A town without a bookstore is an empty shell of a place.”

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11. “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. – Pablo Neruda “Jedediah Craig. It’s a pleasure.”

— Ellery Adams

12. “People say write what you know, but I say write about what makes your blood race. Write about that, and your words will become sails filled with a strong wind.”

— Ellery Adams

13. “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. – Rumi.”

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14. “Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”

— Ellery Adams

15. “My gut is telling me is that this is where I’m supposed to be. It’s like I left my dreams in a jar on a shelf in my childhood closet, and now I only need to reach up and open the lid so they can come true.”

— Ellery Adams

16. “The wound is the place where the light enters you. – Pablo Neruda.”

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17. “You like almost every genre, but you’re a binge genre reader. When you’re on a science-fiction kick, you stay with sci-fi for weeks. Then, all of a sudden, you’ll drop that genre and turn to historical fiction.”

— Ellery Adams

18. “How to make spiced rum. Place rum, allspice, cloves, cardamom, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel, and one vanilla bean – split lengthwise – in a jar and store in a dark place for 2 days. Strain rum using cheesecloth. Pour and enjoy.”

— Ellery Adams

19. “There were books everywhere. Hundreds of books. Thousands of books. There were books of every size, shape, and color. They lined the walls from floor to ceiling, standing straight and rigid as soldiers on the polished mahogany shelves, the gilt lettering on their worn spines glinting in the soft light, the scent of supple leather and aging paper filling the air.”

— Ellery Adams

20. “Every time I reread a favorite book, I’d find something new in it. Not because the story changed, but because I did.”

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21. “I prefer cinnamon twists over scones because they’re easier to eat while I’m reading. That’s my main priority when it comes to food. Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?”

— Ellery Adams

22. “A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. – Dr. Seuss.”

— Ellery Adams

23. “A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy. – The Arabian Nights.”

— Ellery Adams

24. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas.”

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25. “By pouring yourself out, you can be filled up.”

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26. “The temple bell stops – but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers.”

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27. “I confess to making decisions that have complicated my life and compromised my principles,” the man said. “But I’ve never taken my coffee any way but black.”

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28. “The unique and magical nature of books is their ability to grant us temporary escape from our reality while also providing ways to cope with that reality when we’re forced to return to it.”

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29. “I need books like I need oxygen.”

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30. “The list was a mixture of hardship and hope. Pain and renewal. It would serve as a recurring reminder that, though the past colors our present, it doesn’t have to dictate the future.”

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31. “Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain’t nothin’ can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.”

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32. “Bookstores remind me that there are good things in this world. – Vincent van Gogh.”

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33. “If our dreams make the world better, then we should never stop chasing them.”

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34. “Every book was a tree living a second life. And the older the book, the more it smelled of the earth – the more the rustle of its crisp, yellowed pages sounded like the rustle of leaves.”

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35. “With beauty before me, may I walk. With beauty behind me, may I walk. With beauty above me, may I walk. With beauty below me, may I walk. With beauty all around me, may I walk. Wandering on the trail of beauty, may I walk.”

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36. “There is no friend as loyal as a book. – Ernest Hemingway.”

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37. “A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. – Franz Kafka.”

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38. “Bullies lash out because they’re hurting.”

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39. “And now here is my secret, a simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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40. “If it wants a soul, then yes. Every town needs a bookstore.”

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41. “But Nora knew all too well that it was possible for two lonely people to meet, believe they’d fallen in love, and marry, only to discover – years later – that their loneliness remained.”

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42. “A person’s library is like a fingerprint. The books on their shelves are a collection of memories and wishes. They’re as unique as a snowflake.”

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43. “Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor.”

— Ellery Adams

44. “You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, “I forgive. I’m finished with it.” – Maya Angelou.”

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45. “No one could touch her here, in her fortress of books. They were her armor against life’s jagged edges. Her safe harbor in the raging storm.”

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46. “A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. – Edward P. Morgan.”

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47. “Nora Pennington loved selling books. She loved talking to people about books. But what she wanted most was to heal people using books.”

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48. “Our secrets are our monsters, Nora thought. Dark and shadowy. Watery and cold.”

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