Jenny Colgan Quotes

#1. Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

Charles Stanley

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Then when Matt had come along it hadn't been fireworks, passion and fights and drama. It had been low- key, sweet, lovely. But that didn't meant it wasn't the real thing. It never had done. Just because it wasn't suprising hadn't meant it wasn't right.

Jenny Colgan

#6. Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.

Anita Hill

#7. I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

Erma Bombeck

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

Jenny Colgan

#9. she just hadn't met anyone who compared to the heroes of the books she loved. A Mr. Darcy, or a Heathcliff, or even, in the right mood, a Christian Gray . . .

Jenny Colgan

#10. Helping to match people to the book that would change their life, or make them fall in love, or get over a love affair gone wrong. And for the children, she could show them where to dive into a crocodile-infested river, or fly through the stars, or open the door of a wardrobe...

Jenny Colgan

#11. The way my luck is at the moment," said Polly, "I probably will get a tiny bit of money back, and as I leave the bank after picking it up, a bolt of lightning will come out of the sky and set it on fire. Then a piano will fall on my head and knock me down a manhole.

Jenny Colgan

#12. How could a society produce such masters and such monsters?

Meg Wiviott

#13. I would like congratulate everyone who was a part of 'Life of Pi.'

Anupam Kher

#14. 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

#15. Well, Alexander thought, any minute now, one of the girls he had carelessly discarded was going to come by the barracks with a gun and blow his brains out and on his tombstone the epitaph would read, Here lies Alexander, who couldn't remember the name of any girl he had fucked.

Paullina Simons

#16. She is resisting the Internet idea...because she doesn't want to one day tell her children that she posted an ad on the Internet, interviewed twenty-five hopeful candidates, and finally their father turned up and looked good in comparison with the rest of them. It just doesn't seem right.

Jenny Colgan

#17. My good man, could we have one deadly issue to deal with at a time?

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#18. I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

Fatos Nano

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

Jenny Colgan

#20. And you know what? At the end of the day, it gets down to Obama and Romney. And what it's going to get down to is this. Obama is going to say, 'I inherited a mess and I'm making it better.' And Romney is going to say, 'you haven't made it good enough. And I can do far better than you have done.'

John Kasich

#21. it seemed there was no place for librarians anymore.

Jenny Colgan

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

Jenny Colgan

#23. 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

#24. armed with the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy as well as the entire Outlander series to sink into on the journey. It

Jenny Colgan

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

Jenny Colgan

#26. 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

#27. She just seemed to be a woman absolutely in need of the right book. There was, Nina was fervently convinced, one out there foreveryone. If only that went for everything in life.

Jenny Colgan

#28. Baking is ... Life. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes..

Jenny Colgan

#29. With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.

Deepak Chopra

#30. 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

#31. Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

Dave Chappelle

#32. That didn't sound much like a date, Rosie thought. Useful wasn't a word you used about a date. It was a word you used about a stapler.

Jenny Colgan

#33. Everyone is alien. And even when you are in love with someone, even when you think you know them better than you know yourself; even when you think you know everything about them and they you, and you live in each other's souls.

Even then you know nothing about them at all.

Jenny Colgan

#34. 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

#35. I want to go to the party!'
'I said no.'
'I've been totally good.'
'You shot me with an arrow.

Jenny Colgan

#36. nothing that seemed to have anything to do with what she'd done her entire life, the only job she wanted: finding the right book for the right person. She

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

Jenny Colgan

#38. She's home. That's all. That's true love, I can't explain it any better than that.

Jenny Colgan

#39. I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

Marion Cotillard

#40. 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

#41. Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

Bret Easton Ellis

#42. Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude ...
the absence of profound thankfulness.

Mary Anne Radmacher