Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery Quotes

“Even though she had failed, she knew somewhere deep inside that when you were tested with the worst that could happen and you didn’t fall apart, then more things were possible than you imagined.”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“The sea was beautiful, it was life-enhancing, but it did not belong to you. It was not there to be tamed: the ocean was wild, and she would take what was hers.”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“That we are, in the end, just fallible human beings and we all make mistakes, and if you can forgive other people, then that is almost exactly the same as forgiving yourself and feels just about as good.”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“Even though she had failed, she knew somewhere deep inside that when you were tested with the worst that could happen and you didn’t fall apart, then more things were possible than you imagined. Everyone was stronger than they thought they could be when the worst came to the worst. It was one of the very few good things about confronting the worst.”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“Maybe it was the morning itself, or the truce that comes when you realise that, in fact, the rest of the world isn’t out to cause you pain and trip you up. That most people’s intentions are the same: just to get by the best they can, which sometimes succeeds and sometimes does not. That we are, in the end, just fallible human beings and we all make mistakes, and if you can forgive other people, then that is almost exactly the same as forgiving yourself, and feels just about as good.”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“don’t know why they say love means never having to say you’re sorry,” said Polly suddenly. “I think it means having to say you’re sorry A LOT.”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“Most problems, when it came down to it, could pretty much be cured, or at least helped, by curling up on the sofa with an omelette, watching something with zombies in it.”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“Charm is just a way of fuckers getting you to do what they wanted you to do all along. They might as well hold a gun to your head. They’re both shortcuts.”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“Al die jaren hebben je gebracht waar je nu bent, hield ze zichzelf voor. Die jaren waren onontbeerlijk geweest. Als je gelukkig was geboren, hoe wist je dan wat het betekende om gelukkig te zijn? Hoe kon je je fijne leventje waarderen als je nooit in de shit had gezeten?”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“Le charme, c'est juste un moyen pour les connards de vous faire faire ce qu'ils veulent.”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“La vie est un sursaut. Il faut s'adapter quoi qu'il arrive, non ?”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“Comment aurais-tu pu apprécier à quel point la vie peut être belle, si elle n'avait jamais été pourrie?”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“Ça ne sert à rien de devenir amère parce qu'il y a des connards sur terre. S'il n'y avait pas de connards, tu ne saurais pas repérer les gens bien.”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

“But all those years . . . all those years, she told herself, got you where you are now. All those years were necessary. If you were just happy from the day you were born, how would you ever know? How would you appreciate how good life could be if it had never been crap?”
― Jenny Colgan, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery