Kay Correll > Quotes

“named her restaurant Magic Cafe. But that had been when she was young and still foolishly believed in all that nonsense. A lone blue heron flew past her. She watched as it flapped its wings in a rhythmic motion, continuing down the beach until she lost it in the distance. The breeze tossed her gray-sprinkled hair this way and that. The gray she never considered coloring back to its original chestnut brown, there was no time for such frivolities. She glanced at her watch. It was time to head back to the cafe. It might not open until eleven, but she had a ton of work to do each morning before she unlocked the doors. Plus, this was her monthly get-together with her friends Susan and Julie, a date that was never broken. Her friends would come by for”
― Kay Correll, Wish Upon a Shell

“There’s such a fine line between sleepy small town and dying small town. I’m glad we’re not on the dying side, but things sure are changing. I hope Comfort Crossing keeps its small-town feel.”
― Kay Correll, The Shop on Main

“Bella plopped a canapé in her mouth, convincing herself that it was okay to over indulge in celebration of her shiny new savings account. “Yum, this canapé is great. I swear I’m going to learn to cook someday.”
― Kay Correll, The Shop on Main

“They walked over to the group. Aunt Lil smiled knowingly. Robin and Charlotte”
― Kay Correll, One Simple Wish: Return to Lighthouse Point

“Today it bordered more on the liked-quite-a-bit side of the scale. She stood on the beach at Lighthouse Point on Belle Island. The waves raced up the gentle slope of sand and lapped at her bare feet. This had to be her favorite spot, especially in the early morning hours when all she would pass was an occasional jogger or shell collector. The lighthouse was no”
― Kay Correll, Wish Upon a Shell

“dishes and placed them into the sink. Tomorrow, she’d deal with them tomorrow. Right now she needed to”
― Kay Correll, The Shop on Main

“The envelope was addressed to a Miss Josephine Amaud in Comfort Crossing, Mississippi.”
― Kay Correll, The Letter

“Owen thought that parents were a strange breed of humans. He couldn’t understand their private society, didn’t know the secret handshake.”
― Kay Correll, The Shop on Main

“The sky slowly splashed into a wash of muted colors, as if someone had tossed watercolors across the horizon.”
― Kay Correll, Wish Upon a Shell

“Life is meant to be shared. With family, with friends, with someone you love.”
― Kay Correll, The Shop on Main

“Tally had a love-hate relationship with the sea. Today it bordered more on the liked-quite-a-bit side of the scale. She stood on the beach at Lighthouse Point on Belle Island. The waves raced up the gentle slope”
― Kay Correll, Wish Upon a Shell

“They rarely made time to see her. It made her feel like a failure as a mother, but she wasn’t certain what she would have done differently. She gave them everything they needed, wanted. Spent time with them when they were young. Went to all their activities. Helped with homework. Gave them her unending love and attention.”
― Kay Correll, Saltwater Sunrises

“Things sure had changed since she’d opened Coastal Coffee over thirty years ago.”
― Kay Correll, Saltwater Sunrises

“over the roar of the fan.”
― Kay Correll, Wish Upon a Shell

“Life isn’t always fair to us. Sometimes we just need to make peace with our past and move on.”
― Kay Correll, Five Years or So

“The perfect day. Marrying the perfect man for her.”
― Kay Correll, Five Years or So

“Miss Eleanor had been born a Whitmore, then married Theodore Griffin. But most of the town still considered her a Whitmore, a family that had been on the island since the first settlers.”
― Kay Correll, Saltwater Sunrises

“Life threw curves and the best a person could do was learn to adapt to them.”
― Kay Correll, Six Hours Away

“What was he going to do for a month at the beach with no work to do? What had he been thinking? He’d picked a sleepy little island in southern Florida in the off-season, after the snowbirds had left to go back to their various states, after spring break rush was over, before summer season began”
― Kay Correll, Wish Upon a Shell

“famous-er”
― Kay Correll, The Parker Women

“Being afraid of something is no reason to avoid it. That’s not how to live your life. And if you let a chance at love pass you by because you’re afraid? You might regret it for the rest of your life.”
― Kay Correll, Saltwater Sunrises

“road”
― Kay Correll, Wish Upon a Shell

“Sometimes when you do what other people want you to do, instead of what you want to do… well, it can have grave consequences. Your life might not turn out like you expected. How you wanted it to.”
― Kay Correll, Saltwater Sunrises

“fitting.”
― Kay Correll, Sea Glass from the Past

“Some nights, loneliness just seemed to cling to the air in the cottage.”
― Kay Correll, Saltwater Sunrises

“I look back on the woman I was and just shake my head. I did everything for Victor and my children. But now… I have nothing to show for it. My kids barely talk to me, no matter how hard I try. It’s like my world imploded around me. But now? Now I feel like I’ve taken back some control. That I’m going to be able to support myself. Make it on my own.”
― Kay Correll, Saltwater Sunrises

“Sometimes all the little—and big—failures in her life piled up and threatened to smother her.”
― Kay Correll, Saltwater Sunrises

“right dance of living alone with two boys, owning her own shop, and handling life. “Get your homework off the table and into the backpacks. Jeremy, don’t forget to finish up your homework at your”
― Kay Correll, The Shop on Main