77 Quotes by Jenny Colgan

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.

My good man, could we have one deadly issue to deal with at a time?

Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out full of regrets.

Det var en underbart vacker kväll. Insekterna surrade och dansade över ängarna, strålkastarljuset fångade in dem när motorcykeln svängde i kurvorna. Himlen var violett och ofantlig och stjärnorna började titta fram. Skymningen lösgjorde den tunga doften från häckar, vild vallmo och klättrande vildrosor och den rogivande lukten av nyplöjd jord som väntade på nya frön. Polly andades in djupt. Lukten var berusande.

All the real blokes I know are obsessed with cars and have started doing cycling at the weekend and being really, really boring about it and banging on about their Fitbits and growing stupid beards and talking about being on Tinder. That's what all the 'real men' are like these days!

I never understand," he said, shaking his head, "why anyone would go through the trouble of making up new people in this world when there's already billions of the buggers I don't give a shit about.

She had always been dainty, and never quite confident enough to dance where anyone might see. Here, though, nobody cared or noticed. The emphasis wasn't on looking good or being sexy or standing out; it was about hurling yourself into it and dancing as if you didn't have a care in the world, or a worry, or even a thought; it was dancing as catharsis, and Nina very quickly found that she absolutely loved it.

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never admitted to being in the wrong about anything.