The Bookshop on the Shore Quotes

“It was a very odd concept - that you could become friends with someone simply by examining their bookshelves - but nevertheless, Zoe believed it fervently.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“once when this woman was going on and on about how she would never read on download, that there was nothing like a real book and – I promise I normally am never rude to people but she was being truly insufferable – I said, ‘Well, they’re really only for people who read a lot’ which was mean of me but quite satisfying also.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“In short, she self-medicated with books.

(By the way, as the author of this novel, and one who has herself always self-medicated with books, I cannot rightfully attest or deny whether this is a better way of dealing with 'real life' than any other. In fact, as a reader (all writers are just readers one step to the side), I'm not actually sure I believe in this 'real life'. I know it is a terrible betrayal to say this, but come on, aren't books - whisper it - quite a lot better in real life? In books, baddies get blown up or chopped up or sent to prison. In real life, they're your boss or your ex. In books, you get to know what happened. In real life, sometimes you don't get to know what happened ever. They're not even sure they've found Amelia Earhart. So. Books are absolutely the thing in my opinion, or as the old saying goes: whatever gets you through the night (which I should say is also books. Books get you through the night).)”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“It’s also a story too about how if you love books, well, then I always think you have a layer of protection against the world, which sounds strange, but that is what I truly believe.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“When you look at things the same way you've always done, nothing changes. When you change perspective, everything changes.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“Books are absolutely the thing in my opinion, or as the old saying goes: whatever gets you through the night (which I should say is also books. Books get you through the night).)”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“(By the way, as the author of this novel, and one who has herself always self-medicated with books, I cannot rightfully attest or deny whether this is a better way of dealing with ‘real life’ than any other. In fact, as a reader (all writers are just readers one step to the side), I’m not actually sure I believe in this ‘real life’. I know it is a terrible betrayal to say this, but come on, aren’t books – whisper it – quite a lot better in real life? In books, baddies get blown up or chopped up or sent to prison. In real life, they’re your boss or your ex. In books, you get to know what happened. In real life, sometimes you don’t get to know what happened ever. They’re not even sure they’ve found Amelia Earhart. So. Books are absolutely the thing in my opinion, or as the old saying goes: whatever gets you through the night (which I should say is also books. Books get you through the night).)”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“still believe reading is the best form of direct brain-to-brain communication humans have yet figured out,”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“The loch was the worst kind of dangerous: beautiful and tempting.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“Щойно ви починаєте читати, усі двері перед вами відчиняються, все інше - лише додаткові відтінки.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“People get up every day and walk about with smiles on their faces who have been through things you and I could never imagine.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“love whatever you read. Enrich your life with books, of any type. If you aren’t enjoying a book, try another – life is far too short.* I’m still trying to read every book in the world. You’re a reader. You understand.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“When you look at things the same way you’ve always done, nothing changes. When you change perspective, everything changes.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“When you change perspective, everything changes.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“Val McDermid”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“Hey, I have the new Blood Roses in!’ she said. Surely this was a no-brainer? She pulled up the eight-hundred-page historical fantasy series”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“aren’t books – whisper it – quite a lot better than real life? In books, baddies get blown up or chopped up or sent to prison. In real life, they’re your boss or your ex. In books, you get to know what happened. In real life, sometimes you don’t get to know what happened ever.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“(By the way, as the author of this novel, and one who has herself always self-medicated with books, I cannot rightfully attest or deny whether this is a better way of dealing with ‘real life’ than any other.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“The Magic Faraway Tree, and make up her own lands.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“Moods for books changed like the weather. Sometimes you wanted something profound to lose yourself in; a completely different world. Sometimes you wanted a romp.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“you asked Kirsty if she liked being a teacher, she would say she absolutely loved it, apart from the kids, the admin, the marking, the other teachers, the government, the hours and the money.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“a book called We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“plain black top and black trousers and was trying to accessorise with a floaty scarf of her mother’s, but was definitely thinking she was not a floaty scarf type of person, and if you’re not a floaty scarf type of a person, all a floaty scarf does is annoy you and get in your way, sometimes even getting in your mouth or sticking to your lip gloss,”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“was a very odd concept – that you could become friends with someone simply by examining their bookshelves – but nevertheless Zoe believed it fervently.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“Knowledge of Angels! And Pat Barker, and Kate Atkinson, and Andrea Levy and Louis de Bernières”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“Here was a full hardback Chalet School series her mother used to let her borrow from the library; a complete set of immaculate Shardlake novels; all the great mountaineering tragedies she’d briefly got obsessed with as a teen; more Philip Larkin”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“Even black instant coffee without any milk in an old chipped mug, she realised with some surprise, tastes absolutely delicious when you’re standing on a beach at the water’s edge, on an utterly glorious – if chilly – morning.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“Up on the Rooftops”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“If you aren’t enjoying a book, try another – life is far too short.* I’m still trying to read every book in the world. You’re a reader. You understand.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“she was going to have something. Something for her. Because everything she was doing was for someone else, and worth it, yes, but suddenly she just felt the injustice. Why did she never get what she wanted?”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore