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The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2) QUOTES

The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2) QUOTES

1 " once when this woman was going on and on about how she would never read on download, that there was nothing like a real book and – I promise I normally am never rude to people but she was being truly insufferable – I said, ‘Well, they’re really only for people who read a lot’ which was mean of me but quite satisfying also. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

2 " It was a very odd concept - that you could become friends with someone simply by examining their bookshelves - but nevertheless, Zoe believed it fervently. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

3 " In short, she self-medicated with books.

(By the way, as the author of this novel, and one who has herself always self-medicated with books, I cannot rightfully attest or deny whether this is a better way of dealing with 'real life' than any other. In fact, as a reader (all writers are just readers one step to the side), I'm not actually sure I believe in this 'real life'. I know it is a terrible betrayal to say this, but come on, aren't books - whisper it - quite a lot better in real life? In books, baddies get blown up or chopped up or sent to prison. In real life, they're your boss or your ex. In books, you get to know what happened. In real life, sometimes you don't get to know what happened ever. They're not even sure they've found Amelia Earhart. So. Books are absolutely the thing in my opinion, or as the old saying goes: whatever gets you through the night (which I should say is also books. Books get you through the night).) "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

4 " When you look at things the same way you've always done, nothing changes. When you change perspective, everything changes. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

5 " It’s also a story too about how if you love books, well, then I always think you have a layer of protection against the world, which sounds strange, but that is what I truly believe. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

6 " (By the way, as the author of this novel, and one who has herself always self-medicated with books, I cannot rightfully attest or deny whether this is a better way of dealing with ‘real life’ than any other. In fact, as a reader (all writers are just readers one step to the side), I’m not actually sure I believe in this ‘real life’. I know it is a terrible betrayal to say this, but come on, aren’t books – whisper it – quite a lot better in real life? In books, baddies get blown up or chopped up or sent to prison. In real life, they’re your boss or your ex. In books, you get to know what happened. In real life, sometimes you don’t get to know what happened ever. They’re not even sure they’ve found Amelia Earhart. So. Books are absolutely the thing in my opinion, or as the old saying goes: whatever gets you through the night (which I should say is also books. Books get you through the night).) "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

7 " still believe reading is the best form of direct brain-to-brain communication humans have yet figured out, "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

8 " Books are absolutely the thing in my opinion, or as the old saying goes: whatever gets you through the night (which I should say is also books. Books get you through the night).) "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

9 " When you look at things the same way you’ve always done, nothing changes. When you change perspective, everything changes. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

10 " When you change perspective, everything changes. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

11 " The loch was the worst kind of dangerous: beautiful and tempting. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

12 " It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never admitted to being in the wrong about anything. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

13 " speaking. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

14 " there was absolutely nothing she could do. About anything. And there was something about that that felt oddly freeing. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

15 " 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)

16 " 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. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

17 " Now it was rare to lose a parent or lose a child; and people wouldn’t discuss it, in case it invited bad luck in. In case it was tempting fate, or superstition. She thought of how many people wouldn’t talk about Hari’s speechlessness in case drawing attention to it would somehow visit it upon their own children. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

18 " Oh and I also got cross at a dinner once when this woman was going on and on about how she would never read on download, that there was nothing like a real book and – I promise I normally am never rude to people but she was being truly insufferable – I said, ‘Well, they’re really only for people who read a lot’ which was mean of me but quite satisfying also. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

19 " The view from up here is different,’ said Robert Carrier, extending his wing. ‘When you look at things the same way you’ve always done, nothing changes. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)

20 " could happen two or three times a week – the sun would appear, simply to confound and delight you, breaking across the wet dawn dew, popping its head up over the purple mountains ahead, and once again you would forgive Scotland all its wet mornings and dark evenings for the utter glory of how perfect a perfect day could be. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)