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“Sometimes if you just let things happen, rather than trying to force them, they come easier.”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris
“Maybe it wasn’t about dreams coming true (although that would be nice). Maybe it was about becoming the kind of person who chases them, regardless.”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“So you see, no matter what happens in life, given the right environment to prove, your life force will rise,”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“He told me that the love you have in your heart for someone you cannot be with is never a burden to be carried. It is a gift, he said. A gift you can share in other ways.”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“realised that just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you get wiser. If anything, you become more protective of what little you can control in this life, shutting out all of the possibilities that require you to trust, have faith and let go.”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“People need to remember, Edith, otherwise their deaths and the thousands of people who sacrificed their lives trying to protect them will have been for nothing.’ His words were so powerful. Remembrance was the best way to honour people.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you get wiser. If anything, you become more protective of what little you can control in this life, shutting out all of the possibilities that require you to trust, have faith and let go.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Offering food”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“But I had the ability to make an impact on people’s lives”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“The Stone Tape theory is a paranormal hypothesis which speculates that during intense moments in someone’s life, places can absorb some form of energy from them as living beings. After their death, this stored energy can then be released, resulting in a display of the recorded activity. According to this hypothesis, ghosts are not spirits but simply non-interactive recordings similar to a movie.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“What was a greater cruelty – a harsh truth or a kind lie?”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Bread is a living thing,’ he used to tell me. ‘If you put your heart into the dough, you’ll spread happiness to all who eat your bread!”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Django Reinhardt”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Madame Moreau nodded, and at last I realised that just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you get wiser. If anything, you become more protective of what little you can control in this life, shutting out all of the possibilities that require you to trust, have faith and let go.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“I just abandoned it altogether as a stupid dream. I mean, that’s what happens, isn’t it? You grow up and face reality, but what you don’t realise is that abandoning your dreams is like abandoning a part of yourself.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Sometimes if you just let things happen, rather than trying to force them, they came easier.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“People need to remember, Edith, otherwise their deaths and the thousands of people who sacrificed their lives trying to protect them will have been for nothing.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“realised I didn’t need to be like everybody else, I just needed to be me.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Something magical happened when I stopped putting pressure on myself to be someone – the person I thought people wanted me to be. I discovered an inner self, someone who’d been there all along, just waiting for me to stop getting in my own way.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“I realised that just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you get wiser. If anything, you become more protective of what little you can control in this life, shutting out all of the possibilities that require you to trust, have faith and let go.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Maybe it wasn’t about dreams coming true (although that would be nice). Maybe it was about becoming the kind of person who chases them,”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Sometimes if you just let things happen, rather than trying to force them, they came easier.”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“When he asked me out, I didn’t really feel butterflies, but rather a practical resignation to it all. I felt like the chances of me meeting someone were slim, so I thought I’d better make the best of this one chance. I ignored my lukewarm feelings for Barry as long as possible, because I really did want to love him and marry and maybe even start a family. It would have been … well, it would have been convenient. But while I was feeling guilty about not loving him, I didn’t notice that in some ways, he was taking advantage of me.”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Something magical happened when I stopped putting pressure on myself to be someone – the person I thought people wanted me to be. I discovered an inner self, someone who’d been there all along, just waiting for me to stop getting in my own way.”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Once again, I found myself hypnotised by his verbose style that challenged you to slow down and not speedread to find out what was going to happen.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“He looked at the headstone, his brother's name engraved along with two dates like bookends. You were given a finite amount of time and whatever you didn't manage to accomplish within those dates would remain forever undone.”
Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“The well of grief is deep, and I was afraid I would drown in sorrow if I ever acknowledged its presence.”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Two people can have the same experience, yet still have completely different memories of it.”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“Smile, though your heart is aching, smile even though it’s breaking, when there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by, if you smile through your tears and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow, you’ll see the sun come shining through, for you…”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
“I should’ve dog-eared the pages, that would’ve served him right. Although I wasn’t quite sure anybody deserved that.”
Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

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