The Christmas Lights Quotes

“Home is wherever you are, it may not be exciting or glamorous, but this (indicating the vast view) is the biggest life.”
― Karen Swan, The Christmas Lights

“Escaping, traveling...it was all one and the same to her, somehow, this freedom always came at a cost; she had to loose someone close first, someone vital.”
― Karen Swan, The Christmas Lights

“And you? Where did you grow up?’ he asked as he began to grind the beans with the pestle. ‘Oh, a place called Dorset, in the south of England,’ Bo said, watching, fascinated. She’d never had her coffee ground for her by hand before. ‘Nowhere as exciting as this.’ ‘I know Dorset.’ She looked up in surprise. ‘You do?’ ‘I once had an English girlfriend from there. Sherborne.’ ‘That’s not far from where I grew up,’ she said excitedly. ‘Do you know Wimborne?’ He stilled, seeming to think for a moment. ‘I think we went there once. A horse race.’ ‘Yes, at Badbury Rings. A point-to-point, we call it. We always used to go to that.’ She sighed happily at the memories as they rose, unbidden by this unexpected turn in the conversation. ‘Do you know I’ve been all over the world and never once met anyone who knew my home town?”
― Karen Swan, The Christmas Lights