The Christmas Book Hunt Quotes

“It was absolute heaven, with the fire flickering and the candles burning steadily while the rain drummed on the old windowpanes.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“It’s dark and cold but then you go in somewhere warm, and the loveliness of that – the nice warm car, or pub, or home, or coffee shop – it is just the loveliest feeling. Or hopping into bed and getting cosy. Or having an electric blanket.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“it’s real . . . if it’s real, it’s worth its weight in gold, you understand? You would have to guard it with your life.’ ‘It’s a book,’ protested Mirren. ‘Books change the world,’ said the old man,”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; She shines on thieves on the garden wall, On streets and fields and harbour quays, And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“Books change the world,”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“For the long nights you lay awake And watched for my unworthy sake: For your most comfortable hand That led me through the uneven land: For all the story-books you read: For all the pains you comforted:”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“It smelled not unlike Great-aunt Violet; an aura of books, of reading, of curling up and being cosy, of deciding, in a queue or on a train or a bus, just to step out of your normal world for a little while, go visit Narnia, or medieval England, or Persia, or the cockpit of a fighter plane; a hot air balloon; crime-ridden streets of Victorian London. To sit and blow the dust off something, then be transported elsewhere. It was magical. She couldn’t think of another word for it.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“It smelled not unlike Great-aunt Violet; an aura of books”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“Then she remembered how Violet had begged”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“Not to be locked behind glass and handled with white gloves. Books want to live and breathe.’ Mirren smiled. ‘They do,’ she said”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“Books change the world,’ said the old man”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“It’s a book,’ protested Mirren. ‘Books change the world,’ said the old man”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“Theo was growing sleepy when the irritating girl reappeared”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“Child’s Garden of Verses,’ said Violet”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“moving”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“Books change the world,’ said the old man, blinking behind his spectacles.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“counteroffensive”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“if it’s real, it’s worth its weight in gold, you understand? You would have to guard it with your life.’ ‘It’s a book,’ protested Mirren. ‘Books change the world,’ said the old man,”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt

“a book dealer? There used to be so many, on Charing Cross Road, but they had mostly all gone now, turned into coffee shops just like everywhere else.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Book Hunt