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The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1) QUOTES

The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop, #1) 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 " 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)

3 " 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)

4 " 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)

5 " 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)

6 " 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)

7 " 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)

8 " 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)

9 " 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)

10 " 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)

11 " 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)

12 " 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)

13 " 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. "

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

14 " Dogs are tremendously good at showing you you don't have to check your phone every two seconds to have a happy life. "

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

15 " I never understand,” he said, shaking his head, “why anyone would go to 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. "

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

16 " 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. "

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

17 " If you weren’t an extrovert, if you weren’t shoving yourself out into the open all the time, posting selfies everywhere, demanding attention, talking constantly, people just gazed right past you. You got overlooked. "

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

18 " Book in bath. Paperbacks are ideal, obviously, and the worst that can happen is you have to dry it out on the radiator (all my children’s handed-down Harry Potters are utterly warped), but I read a lot on my e-reader and I will let you into a secret: I turn the pages with my nose. You may not have been blessed with a magnificent Scots-Italian Peter Capaldi nose like me, but with a bit of practice you should soon find it’s perfectly possible to keep one of your hands in the water and turn the pages at the same time. "

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

19 " 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 much as she disputed the fact, it was time to admit that books were not real life. "

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

20 " Be silent, hide away and let your thoughts and longings rise and set in the deep places of your heart. Let dreams move silently as stars, in wonder more than you can tell. Let them fulfill you—and be still. "

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