Penelope Fletcher’s Favorite Things

“I moved to France for the wine but I wish I had moved to Italy instead!”

“I was born on a bicycle and will probably die on one.”

“Notebooks are the present that I give everyone when I really just want to get them for myself.”

“Booksellers are clean-hand-obsessed.”

“Films and books inhabit the same space.”

“Wearing sandals because a lot of my imagined existence is still in Greek mythology.”

“Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday through to Sunday is a perfect luxury lunch box delight for those of us who work seven days a week and plan on bringing lunch one day to eat in the Jardin Luxembourg next to the Medici Fountain.”

“Tea for one. This sleepytime tea is a way to sink into the arms of Morpheus a little faster”

“This beautiful tablecloth made by survivors of modern day slavery goes on the outside table in the garden under the apple trees of my mind.”

“These mushroom chocolates from Alice will see you beyond the looking glass.”

“Sometimes I am a bookseller wearing dresses. But at heart I am really a bookseller wearing wide leg chambray trousers.”

“This collection would look beautiful in my sunny sixth floor apartment in the north of Paris. It includes two volumes of favorites by Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, and many other essays, essayists and subjects I would love to read. Plus, the whole collection is in beautiful colors and hardbound gorgeous binding.”