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161 " 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. "
― Jenny Colgan , Little Beach Street Bakery (Little Beach Street Bakery #1)
162 " Oh crap,’ she said, as Apostil became more demanding. ‘I did that thing where I was drunkenly utterly convinced I was sober. "
― Jenny Colgan , The Christmas Surprise (Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop, #3)
163 " Hello!” barked Dr. Joan Davenport. Lissa frowned slightly and felt her heart rate jump up and her nerves pile in. “Um,” said Lissa. “Are you Alyssa Westcott?” “Um, Lissa?” Joan looked like she couldn’t care less about that. “Well, you’re my charge, it appears. I did ask for a boy.” Lissa was confused. “Just my little joke! Never mind! Nobody reads, I get it, I get it. "
― Jenny Colgan , 500 Miles from You (Scottish Bookshop, #3)
164 " a huge claw-foot bathtub in the black and white bathroom. "
― Jenny Colgan , Christmas on the Island (Mure, #3)
165 " Is there anything worse, she thought, than carpets in bathrooms? "
166 " The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things. It would be lovely, wouldn’t it, whenever you’re going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, “Don’t worry, it’s completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end, "
― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1)
167 " Because life is like that, isn’t it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you’d never do anything ever again. And some people don’t. Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try something new. Of course, that in itself is also a decision. You’ll get somewhere whether you put any effort into it or not. But doing something new is so hard. And a few things can help. "
168 " Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do "
169 " nothing, you can’t fix anything. And your life might turn out to be full of regrets. "
170 " I want to be with books, have them all around me. "
171 " Quando você planta seu coração em um cantinho, esse lugar sempre te acompanha. "
172 " Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. VOLTAIRE "
173 " the soothing cadence of somebody reading always had a transformative effect on babies; Griffin’s theory was that children were evolutionarily engineered to listen to stories, because it stopped them from wandering off into the woods and getting eaten by hairy mammoths. "
174 " 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 . "
175 " 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. "
― Jenny Colgan , The Cafe by the Sea (Mure, #1)
176 " 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. "
― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)
177 " 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. "
178 " 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. "
― Jenny Colgan , Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams (Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop, #1)
179 " The older I get,’ said Lilian crisply, ‘the more surprising life becomes. "
180 " Poetry is good for people who are in strange lands,” said Marek. “Yes, "