Joanna Cannon Quotes

#1. What do you mean, Jesus?' May Roper pulled the crocheted sea a little further up her legs.
'On the drainpipe. I've seen Him with my own eyes.'
'Have you been in the sun again, Brian?'
'Sheila Dakin thinks it's a sign.'
'A sign she's been at the sherry.

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#2. It appeared that Jesus pulled a much bigger crowd if He provided garibaldis.

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#3. My mother said I was at an awkward age. I didn't feel especially awkward, so I presumed she meant that it was awkward for them.

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#4. I still hadn't learned the power of words. How, once they have left your mouth, they have a breath and a life of their own. I had yet to realize that you no longer own them. I hadn't learned that, once you have let them go, the words can then, in fact, become the owner of you.

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#5. Why does He hate the goats so much?'
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'I'm not sure,' I said. 'He only seems to like sheep.

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#6. They assumed I didn't understand the conversation, and it was much easier to let them think that. My mother said I was at an awkward age. I didn't feel especially awkward, so I presumed she meant it was awkward for them.

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#7. And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong.

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#8. The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener.

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#9. I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.

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#10. You'll understand as you get older. You can spot them a mile off, You'll learn to cross the street.' [...] 'Perhaps that's why they don't mix,' said Tilly, 'because everyone else is on the other side of the street?

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