Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads) Quotes

“It's not a joke unless everyone can laugh at it.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story

“I don't mind being called ugly, you know. What's ugly to you is beautiful to someone else. And I know we're all beautiful.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story

“The people, the trees, the sounds, they were all alive in a way that only summer can create. Summer gives life to things the other seasons can't fully nourish.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story

“I just want to thank you, you know. Yeah, I ended up in hospital, but the path I was on wasn't a good one. I could have ended up somewhere worse. And everything that happened, because of you, showed me that.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story

“Den was a nasty piece of work, and had only got nastier as he'd grown up. It really wasn't his fault, though. As is so often the way, he'd grown up in a toxic household and didn't know who to talk to, or how to express his emotions. The older he got, the angrier he got at life, and blamed everyone around him for it.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story

“It's fair to say that nobody could really remember what happened at the beginning. But when you throw hormones and the stress of school and peer pressure into the mix, fiction becomes fact. Rumours and gossip become truths.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story