Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop Quotes

“It strikes me that we humans build these lives for ourselves that have the tendency to trap us.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop

“And one thing I’ve learned is there is no right way to walk this earth, and we can only learn from those in our lives, take whatever lesson we can from it and keep going.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop

“Bookworms do that a lot, fall for the hero in their latest read and get terribly down about the fact they’re fictional.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie’s Travelling Tea Shop

“That is the best scent in the world, better than any perfume, any flower. It’s the smell of lives lived, the weight of words …’ ‘Well, I guess I never quite thought of books that way before.’ Sure, they could transport you to another place, be there for you when no one else was, but I hadn’t quite pictured secondhand books as having lived their own important lives, being ferried from one person to the next, imparting a little magic along the way.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop

“Jeez, have I been missing out on living because I've let my fear drive every single choice I've ever made?”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie’s Travelling Tea Shop

“... you always seem to think you have to change, you think you have to improve yourself, to be like everyone else, to fit in, but can't you see you're perfect just the way you are?”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie’s Travelling Tea Shop

“But of course, you can’t outrun grief, it’s always there hovering behind like a shadow.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop

“You meditate over it, and by that I mean, clear your mind from time to time, and let those thoughts and feelings come and then absolve yourself. Remember the child you were, not the adult you became.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop

“all those material things did the exact opposite of fulfilling me, they held me back, kept me in debt, kept me working to maintain a lifestyle that didn’t satisfy me at all. With so much less, I have so much more.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop

“I hadn’t quite pictured secondhand books as having lived their own important lives, being ferried from one person to the next, imparting a little magic along the way.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop

“...I fall into a deep sleep, only waking when my alarm shrills at stupid o’clock the next day...”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop

“I don’t dwell on it much – just every hour, on the hour, or so.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop

“Bed is calling to me in the most seductive way; come hither and sleep, Rosie, it says.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop

“Shall I make us a G and T? I think under these circumstances it’s purely medicinal.”
― Rebecca Raisin, Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop