The Bookshop (2017)

Julie Christie: Narrator

Quotes 

• [Last lines] 

  Narrator : How right she was when she said that no one ever feels alone in a bookshop.

• Narrator : [Voice over]  Mr. Brundish lived alone in the oldest house in Hardborough. He didn't particularly like his own company, but after long years of battle, he had reached a lasting truce with himself. He adored books with the same passion with which he detested his fellow men.

• [last lines] 

  Narrator : For years to come, I will remember how she tried to smile looking at the book I had in my hands. Then, she realized what I had done. She had fulfilled the dream and they'd snatched it away from her. But what she possessed deep down was something no one could ever take away from her: her courage. And it was that courage and her passion for books that she bequeathed to me, along with the Chinese lacquerd tray.

  Narrator : [modern bookshop keeper closes up for the day]  How right she was when she said that no one ever feels alone in a bookshop.

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : She told me once: "When we read a story, we inhabit it; the covers of the books are like a roof and four walls: a house." She, more than anything else in the world, loved the moment when you've finished a book and the story keeps playing like the most vivid dream in your head.

  [seagulls cawing]