77 Quotes by Jenny Colgan

"Books had been her solace when she was sad, her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it was broken, and encouraged her to hope when she was down."

"Everything seemed to happen so slowly. Nina watched the spiral of dust tremble its way from the ceiling, wavering in the light, a tiny cloud of white, nothing more. But it was, she knew, enough. She looked at Surinder."

"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."

"Now she knew that there were people -people everywhere- who cared about and loved books as much as she did."

"She is resisting the Internet idea... because she doesn’t want to one day tell her children that she posted an ad on the Internet, interviewed twenty-five hopeful candidates, and finally their father turned up and looked good in comparison with the rest of them. It just doesn’t seem right."

"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!"

"How lovely to work at something you loved and knew you were great at, even if it was for a pittance and you occasionally got punched."

"Endlessly welcoming and hospitable, particularly up here. It didn’t necessarily mean she belonged, did it?"

"Bramble, the fat retired sheepdog who was snoozing by the fire, got up in case she was doing anything interesting, then went back to his busy day job of sleeping, farting, and looking for pastry."

"Plymouth?” Chapter Five They had to wait thirty-five minutes for the tide to go out far enough for them to get back across the causeway. Polly spent the entire time humming to distract herself from Kerensa, who had come up with another ninety-five reasons why she couldn’t possibly move to Polbearne. Funnily enough, they only seemed to make her more determined."