The Little Cottage on the Hill Quotes

“Now you’re just trying to be kind.’ ‘And is there anything wrong with that?’ She took Maddie gently by the arm. ‘There’s scarcely enough kindness in the world as it is, and yet we continue to be our own worst enemies. We beat ourselves up over the slightest thing, even when our intentions are good ones. If we can’t even be kind to ourselves… well, maybe other people need to be kind for us.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“Well, technically speaking you did.’ Maddie whirled around to find Seth grinning at her. ‘We did actually sleep together. What we didn’t do is play three rounds of hide the sausage, which is what Agatha here is suggesting, I believe.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“There are some things we can’t alter no matter how hard we try.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“Whereas before she had seen neglect and a mishmash of broken-down buildings, she now saw that they were merely sleeping, waiting to be brought back to life. They were home; a place of sanctuary, a place of love.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“There’s scarcely enough kindness in the world as it is, and yet we continue to be our own worst enemies. We beat ourselves up over the slightest thing, even when our intentions are good ones. If we can’t even be kind to ourselves… well, maybe other people need to be kind for us.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“I didn’t hit him, did I?’ ‘No, Rumpus has lived to tell the tale.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“You out-and-out bastard,’ she hissed. ‘How dare you?’ ‘Me?’ Seth fired back. ‘How can you complain about what I said?”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“My ideas are probably very different from yours, but essentially we want the same thing, and that’s to make this a success. I couldn’t bear to see another dream die.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“You need to be maximising your income at the earliest possible opportunity, not letting it slip through your fingers because your brains are in your trousers…”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“On its own, a single strand of straw can serve no real purpose, but pull those strands together and it forms something that’s strong, and enduring; it becomes something greater than itself.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“Do you know there’s one thing I hate even more than a smart arse… and that’s a smart arse who thinks they’re funny.’ She glared at him. ‘Now bloody well shut up and show me what to do.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“If he wasn’t careful he’d get the pitchfork right up his…”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“I can’t believe you think it’s acceptable to even ask me to do such a thing, never mind actually expect me to do it. Can I remind you what my position is here? I’m your Development and Marketing Executive, not a builder’s navvy.’ ‘Yes, and I’m your boss.’ His eyes flashed at her. ‘You’re not actually, Agatha is. I’m sure when she gets to hear about this—”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“You have got to be kidding me?’ She couldn’t help herself. It was the first thing that came into her head. She stared at the pitchfork she’d just been given. If this was a joke, it was seriously unfunny. And if it wasn’t a joke… ‘Say that again, Seth, I don’t think I heard you quite right.’ He grinned at her. ‘I told you we’d get filthy.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“She wasn’t sure what worried her the most; the fact that he didn’t think her new country clothes were suitable, or that they were about to get very dirty. ‘Well if we’re about to get filthy then the clothes I have on will cease to be nice or new-looking, won’t they? Problem solved. And I’m quite comfortable, thank you.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“She wasn’t sure what worried her the most; the fact that he didn’t think her new country clothes were suitable, or that they were about to get very dirty.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“The smell of baking bread the next morning could have drawn a dead man from his bed,”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“I tried the stroking thing,’ she said, as he frowned at her, ‘but…’ ‘They’re hungry,’ he said, eyes glazed. ‘Oh…’ She looked at the two ravenous beasts in front of her and pulled her hands even closer to her chest. ‘I could feed them, maybe.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“She was almost asleep when she realised what she was doing. She would never let an animal sleep on her bed – the hairs, the germs! She sat up, grasping the dozing cat and, to its disgust, depositing it firmly on the landing”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“Let me guess… I reckon you’re a skinny caramel macchiato?’ Madeline looked up in surprise. ‘You know what one of those is?”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“The sun made certain flowers open in the morning and close by dusk. Even the humble dandelion tracked its passage across the sky. Here the sun had brought a smattering of freckles to her face, and lifted the colour of her hair so that it glinted with a coppery hue. The rain by turn brought a beautiful freshness with it, a smell of earth and sky, catching the light like diamonds as it dipped to the earth below. Even the wind brought treasures, fragrancing the washing blown on the line, rustling through the trees, the noise a constant lilting companion to the day.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“What had happened in the past was in the past, and no one would know about it here.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“around”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill