The Queen of Wishful Thinking Quotes

“First wish it. Then think of yourself doing it. Then do it.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“The greater your storm, the brighter your rainbow.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“All those years working down in London during the week. You must have had your opportunities.’ ‘Well I didn’t,’ said Lew convincingly, though it wasn’t strictly true. There had been an extremely bright and beautiful graduate who had an obvious crush on him and he’d found himself more than once wondering what it would be like to hold her. But he was married and he hadn’t even opened the door a sliver on that one. He’d made sure he was never alone with her, didn’t flirt with her and never gave her the slightest inkling that unfaithful thoughts had flitted across his brain. He was only human after all and he couldn’t do anything about involuntary reactions to her pheromones, but he could do something about not acting on what his perfidious brain was encouraging him to do.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“Lew was married and that was it as far as he was concerned. He’d never strayed and he never would. If he ever fell out of love with Charlotte, he’d end it and then move on, not try the waters beforehand.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“There has to be love and trust and . . . all sorts of other little ingredients.’ Love was just the bricks of the wall. The other stuff was the cement.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“The bigger the storm the brighter the rainbow”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“The man wants to tell the world that when life offers you a second chance, you take it and hold it and run with it and you cherish it.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“His manly duties covered the gardening, the bulb-changing and general maintenance, the woman did the washing, ironing, cleaning.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“Low Joel couldn’t see beyond himself. A dark half of paranoia, sadness and self-loathing who tried to alienate Bonnie, pushing her buttons to prove the self-fulfilling prophecy that he was unlovable,”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking