The Travelling Tea Shop Quotes

“Move toward your dreams, not away from your problems.”
― Belinda Jones, The Traveling Tea Shop

“Apparently the painting was removed from a Venetian palazzo, shipped to Newport and glued above the bed so Alva could feel inspired every morning as she awoke.”
― Belinda Jones, The Traveling Tea Shop

“far as I was concerned we were extremely lucky to have a mother who was so devoted, so encouraging, such fun—how ungrateful would it be to focus on a disappeared dad? Shouldn’t we be glad for the good things?”
― Belinda Jones, The Traveling Tea Shop

“Nothing bad can happen to you when you are surrounded by cupcakes.”
― Belinda Jones, The Travelling Tea Shop

“Post tot naufragia portus, which translates as "After so many shipwrecks, a haven.”
― Belinda Jones, The Travelling Tea Shop

“There was in my mother's love of me something of the creative spirit of an artist -- it was her wish to produce me as a finished specimen framed in a perfect setting.”
― Belinda Jones, The Travelling Tea Shop

“Mothers seem to have an infinite capacity to withstand hurt from their children. All they see is their pain and I think they feel responsible for it, as if it is their fault that the child in question is feeling so bad and acting so selfishly -- and thus the very least they can do is take it.”
― Belinda Jones, The Travelling Tea Shop

“If addiction is a disease, how do you first catch it? I mean, if you've never tried a single sodding drug in the first place, how could you become addicted? You couldn't. It wouldn't be possible. You are making a choice that first time. You are volunteering for the addiction. You know it's wrong and self-destructive but you do it anyway.”
― Belinda Jones, The Travelling Tea Shop

“In the concrete jungle it's sink or swim: you can't be timid or tentative; you have to forge through, make your mark, enter the fray.”
― Belinda Jones, The Travelling Tea Shop