"Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing."

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the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a book could easily be dismissed, or, worse, go unread. Instead she let it sit where it was in the hope that the right reader might discover it.

— Nicole Krauss