Christmas at the Comfort Food Café Quotes

“I am used to solitude and it is used to me. We understand each other, me and solitude. I don’t get annoyed when it keeps me awake at night with its echoing loneliness, and it’s always cool about me sometimes bringing friends home to chase it away for a while. Like a grumpy but dedicated couple, though, we always come back to each other at the end of the day.”
― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café

“I have a contrary streak bigger than Kim Kardashian’s arse,”
― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café

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― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café

“Learned not to judge anyone until I’ve walked in their shoes. That’s why we all need friends, isn’t it, to help us out with the weak spots? And sometimes the weak spots nobody can see are the ones that hurt the most.”
― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café

“ignored every sensible piece of advice she got and did the Crazy Thing. Because sometimes the Crazy Thing is exactly what your life needs.”
― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café

“a place you go to heal without even knowing you’re wounded”
― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café

“I don’t have kids. I’ll probably never have kids. And I am getting sick of people behaving as though the only way a woman can be judged is by what comes out of her vagina.”
― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café

“I’ve always been inclined to keep my emotions inside. Because, you know, if I let them out, they might be like baboons escaping from the zoo – they’ll go on a noisy rampage and snap car aerials off and show everybody their bright red bums. Edie”
― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café

“One of the few advantages of reaching my age is that I've seen it all. Learned not to judge anyone until I've walked in their shoes. That's why we all need friends, isn't it, to help us out with the weak spots? And sometimes the weak spots nobody can see are the ones that hurt the most.”
― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café

“I feel the words rising, and they are words I’ve never, ever spoken out loud before. Words that belong to stories I’ve never told. Words that describe the hurt I’ve never expressed. Words that probably won’t capture the guilt I’ve never properly climbed over. I feel them there, these words, powerful, bubbling under the surface like lava, scalding hot and searingly painful.”
― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café

“Laura’s always been more sociable than me. More friendly. More likable, basically. I always get to a stage where no matter how much I’m enjoying myself, I make a run for it –”
― Debbie Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Café