Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop Quotes

“I feel it is no coincidence that often our worst leaders declare that they read the least.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“She knew about falling in love with people; she’d never realized you could also fall in love with a place.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“However tricky things were, there was something like a promise kept: Every year, there will be a festival. There will be tiny lights. There will be joy, and hope. In the very center of the dark, when things seem at their bleakest, there will be firelight and candles and joy.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“And it sounds strange, but more people, I believe, live in peace and harmony than at any time in human history, even if it doesn’t always feel that way. And a lot of that has to do with increased mutual understanding of one another. Which we find, often, between the covers of a book. I feel it is no coincidence that often our worst”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“This feels . . . like happy times come to life again. Like stepping back into that life. And now I shall read it to my own great-grandchildren. Because that’s what books are, aren’t they? A coming home.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“This darkness will not defeat us. Not now, not ever. We will celebrate being halfway out of the dark.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“And now we are down to one. One sole reminder of a day when to read books was considered to be the greatest of all achievements; to write and to read the way to a better, more peaceful world.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“There will be tiny lights. There will be joy”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“Yes,” said Carmen. “It’s a bookshop. It’s where people come to step into other lives”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“That’s books for you,” said Carmen. “Done right”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“This was where his real interests lay: in esoteric areas of knowledge”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“It’s just . . . it’s a huge time for buying books as gifts”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“He looked at it longingly. “Let me put it on my Christmas list.” He patted his bag. “I do have a direct line to the North Pole.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“Make all your choices as well as you can; that is all you can do. The universe is bigger and stranger than anything he or anyone else could comprehend. Even in this tiny corner of it—the glory of one of the greatest”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“tiny corner of it—the glory of one of the greatest, oldest living things on earth—there was still so much they didn’t know. Never would. And that was all right.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“too: Make all your choices as well as you can; that is all you can do. The universe is bigger and stranger than anything he or anyone else could comprehend. Even in this”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“The classics had a copy of Was Jane Eyre a Murderer?, a book that tried to detect real literary crimes, and a copy of Thursday Next, about an imaginary literary detective,”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“We learn from bad things, too.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“It's history, of course. And art. Look at how we change the way we talk about the world. Look how something can be so dangerous and beautiful at the same time.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“Oh, for goodness sake!" said Carmen. "It's just a book! You are all just going to have to toughen up!”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“...someone asking for the Roald Dahls - the ones before they had made the giant average-size, and Augustus Gloop suffering from a glandular disorder...”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“It’s a bookshop. It’s where people come to step into other lives, other places, for a while.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“now, in mid-December, it was almost always dark. It was lovely.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“She supposed it didn’t matter that spider’s webs stretched over every doorframe. Carmen did not like being mean to spiders, which included breaking their homes,”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“catholic reader,”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop