77 Quotes by Jenny Colgan

When you change perspective, everything changes.

Yes! Do you never listen?” “I never listen.” “Okay, well, it’s a good thing I don’t talk much then, isn’t it?

Books were the best way Nina knew – apart from, sometimes, music – to breach the barrier; to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.

Muffins are just an American way of saying, ‘I eat cake for breakfast.

A nice manner and a level head would surely get you much further. But that didn’t cut much with the big cheeses, who liked flakey mission statements and loud, confident remarks.

He was from that generation – the type who didn’t change things just because they were tired of them, or they were outdated. You bought something, or married someone, and stuck with it.

There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew – apart from, sometimes, music – to breach the barrier, to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.

The way my luck is at the moment,” said Polly, “I probably will get a tiny bit of money back, and as I leave the bank after picking it up, a bolt of lightning will come out of the sky and set it on fire. Then a piano will fall on my head and knock me down a manhole.

She was at that age now where if she made too much fuss over them everyone assumed she was desperately broody and felt sorry for her, whereas if she wasn’t interested enough she was considered bitter and jealous and also secretly desperate for a baby but not able to show it. It was a minefield.