Eleanor Brown

There is no problem a library card can't solve.

— Eleanor Brown

“But Rose learned an important lesson: people don't always do what you tell them to do.”

— Eleanor Brown

“She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few hundred," she said. "How…

— Eleanor Brown

“Sisters keep secrets. Because sisters' secrets are swords.”

— Eleanor Brown

“Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.”

— Eleanor Brown

“Here's one of the problems with communicating in the words of a man who is not around to explain himself: it's damn…

— Eleanor Brown

“Yes, you'd make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That's what every man…

— Eleanor Brown

“Oh honey, we’re all fuckups in our own special ways.”

— Eleanor Brown

“This conversation, you will not be surprised to know, was the impetus for their breakup, given that it caused her to realize…

— Eleanor Brown

“We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.”

— Eleanor Brown

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just…

— Eleanor Brown

“And the baby would never know what it meant to hate Barnwell so deeply that she couldn't help but return to it.”

— Eleanor Brown

“We've all done foolish, foolish things, dear. In my experience, good people punish themselves far more than any external body can manage.…

— Eleanor Brown

“We all have stories we tell ourselves. We tell ourselves we are too fat, or too ugly, or too old, or too…

— Eleanor Brown

Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop.

— Eleanor Brown

“whose tongue more poisons than the adder’s tooth !”

— Eleanor Brown

“She did not want him. Had she ever? It is so easy to look at love when it is over and think…

— Eleanor Brown

“I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret…

— Eleanor Brown

Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the…

— Eleanor Brown

“...after our weekly trip to the library, she cleared the top of her dresser and set out her week's reading, stood them…

— Eleanor Brown

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at…

— Eleanor Brown

“We think, in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the…

— Eleanor Brown

“Forgetting wasn’t the same as being happy. Being drunk wasn’t the same as forgetting … we were at our most miserable when…

— Eleanor Brown

“I’m just like this speed bump in the middle, slowing everyone down because I keep fucking up.”

— Eleanor Brown

“Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.”

— Eleanor Brown