Quotes from Jenny Colgan

Quando você planta seu coração em um cantinho, esse lugar sempre te acompanha.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. VOLTAIRE

Nina, I have tried to be patient. I have tried to help when things go wrong and you buy a book and things go well and you buy a book and it rains so you bring home some books and it's sunny so you get some books. But .

Can you get this coffee on expenses?" "I can," said Flora, looking down at the Harbor's Rest's offering in disgust. "I don't think I will, though. Out of respect to the concept of coffee.

Aquele negócio de autorrealização era difícil de mais, pensou ela. Nina mal estava conseguindo ler uma única palavra, e isso foi a gota d'água. Lennox até podia ter arruinado a vida sexual dela, sua paz de espírito, suas esperanças de ser feliz algum dia, seu ganha-pão. Mas NINGUÉM iria arruinar sua leitura.

In my country I was an engineer, and taught at the university. I had a big house, many nice things. Then they decide they no longer like universities. Here I cook greasy sausage for 15 hours a day. Lots of people have hard things in their lives.

struck her that these days that remorse was very thin on the ground. It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never ever admitted to being in the wrong about anything.

know, you'll say anything is possible. But don't you think the polis would have been all over him? There'd have been search parties and petitions and pictures on lamp-posts and appeals and T-shirts and so on and so forth? A beautiful young mother disappears?' 'Mrs Murray reckons it was hushed up.' 'Mrs Murray reckons 9/11 was done by lizards.

Is this a love potion?" "Oh goodness, no, you don't need that," said Bronagh. "No. It's for the bond that holds two sisters, one of the strongest things on earth. Forged in steel, hard as iron, easy to burn, never to break. Goodspeed home.

Hye Evans? That fat old fool," said Lilian. "That man couldn't diagnose a nail sticking out of your leg if you turned up with a nail sticking out of your leg, saying 'Doctor, I just accidentally hammered a nail into my leg.

The older I get,' said Lilian crisply, 'the more surprising life becomes.

Poetry is good for people who are in strange lands," said Marek. "Yes

dark hair in a top knot

You marry for money, you earn it.

I know," he said in a bewildered tone. "I know youse all think I'm an ancient fuddy-duddy from the dawn of time." "Why would we think that, Dad?" said Innes. "Just because you are an ancient fuddy-duddy from the dawn of time.

The men made war, he thought, not for the first time. The women suffered, and fought for the peace.

Now it was rare to lose a parent or lose a child; and people wouldn't discuss it, in case it invited bad luck in. In case it was tempting fate, or superstition. She thought of how many people wouldn't talk about Hari's speechlessness in case drawing attention to it would somehow visit it upon their own children.

love whatever you read. Enrich your life with books, of any type. If you aren't enjoying a book, try another – life is far too short.* I'm still trying to read every book in the world. You're a reader. You understand.

That's why you're not allowed to touch the Christmas trees," said Phoebe, nodding and carefully moving all the bits of carrot away from the chicken. She had to eat them, but she would put it off to the last possible moment.

En fait suivre votre instinct, c'est tout ce qui compte, dans la vie. Faire ce que vous avez envie de faire. Lorsque vous avez trouvé votre voie, il faut vous donner à fond et tout alors devient possible et vous pourrez surfer sur les plus grosses vagues. Et être heureux.

And his advice, you know. Find something true to your spirit and your soul and do it every day.

Dieu avait fait en sorte de rendre les adolescents insupportables pour que les parents se réjouissent lorsqu'ils quittent le nid familial.

Next to Flora was Agot, who was clearly furious not to be involved in proceedings. She was wearing something strange (it was, in fact, Fintan's old angel costume) and muttering, 'STICKY STICKY STICK STICK' in a tone just loud enough to be irritating and just quiet enough that she was getting away with it.

Ça ne sert à rien de devenir amère parce qu'il y a des connards sur terre. S'il n'y avait pas de connards, tu ne saurais pas repérer les gens bien.