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Jenny Colgan QUOTES

1 " They were probably reading on their tablets,” said Nina loyally. She loved her e-reader, too. “Yes, I know,” said the man. “But I couldn’t see. I couldn’t see what they were reading or ask them if it was good, or make a mental note to look for it later. It was as if suddenly, one day, all the books simply disappeared. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)

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

― Jenny Colgan , Meet Me at the Cupcake Café (Cupcake Café, #1)

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

― Jenny Colgan

4 " Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)

5 " 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! "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)

6 " This is what you British do not understand about the French. You think you must work, work, work, work and open on Sundays and make mothers and fathers with families slave in supermarkets at three o'clock in the morning and make people leave their homes and their churches and their children and go shopping on Sundays.'
'Their shops are open on Sundays?' said Benoît in surprise.
'Yes! They make people work on Sundays! And through lunchtimes! But for what? For rubbish from China? For cheap clothes sewed by poor women in Malaysia? For why? So you can go more often to KFC and get full of fried chicken? You would rather have six bars of bad chocolate than one bar of good chocolate. Why? Why are six bad things better than one good thing? I don't understand. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris

7 " Nina had been told regularly since she was a child that she needed more fresh air, at which she would take her book and clamber up the apple tree at the bottom of their tatty garden, away from the car her father was always tinkering with but had never driven in all the years of her childhood—she wondered what had happened to it—and hide there, braced against the trunk, her feet swinging, burying herself in Enid Blyton or Roald Dahl until she was allowed back inside again. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)

8 " Turkish Delight

Turkish delight has had a bad reputation since that man C.S.Lewis - a positive genius in other ways - linked it for ever with one of the most terrifying creations in literature, the White Witch of Narnia, and that naughty, sticky, traitorous Edmund. But with the sensuous pleasure imbued in its melting, gelatinous texture, and, when made in the proper way, delicately perfumed with rose petals, flavoured with oils and dusted with sugar, it reclaims its power as a sweet as seductive as Arabian nights. The fact that it now carries with it a whiff of danger merely adds to its pleasure. It is not, truly, a sweet for children. They simply complain, and get the almonds stuck up their noses, "

― Jenny Colgan , Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams (Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop, #1)

9 " Dear ignoramuses,

Halloween is not 'a yankee holiday' celebrated only by gigantic toddlers wearing baseball caps back to front and spraying 'automobiles' with eggs. This is ignorance.

Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.

Pinatas on the other hand are heathen monstrosities and have no place in a civilised society. "

― Jenny Colgan , Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams (Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop, #1)

10 " Multiply all ingredients by four to get too many cupcakes. "

― Jenny Colgan , Meet Me at the Cupcake Café (Cupcake Café, #1)

11 " 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. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)

12 " Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)

13 " We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles. "

― Jenny Colgan

14 " 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. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)

15 " I am of the old-fashioned conviction that reading is a pleasure to be carefully guarded at all times "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)

16 " Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and other life events that took up every spare moment of their time, in case unpleasant thoughts intruded. But for Nina, whenever reality, or the grimmer side of reality, threatened to invade, she always turned to a book. 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. Yet "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)

17 " Life was always easier, reflected Issy, when you were carrying a large Tupperware full of cakes. Everyone was happy to see you then. "

― Jenny Colgan , Meet Me at the Cupcake Café (Cupcake Café, #1)

18 " The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)

19 " I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten. "

― Jenny Colgan , Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams (Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop, #1)

20 " Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days. Now, "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)