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“Oh God,” said Carmen. “I always do this. I just dive straight in and speak and get myself into so much trouble.” Oke smiled. “Have you ever thought about not doing that?” “All the time,” she said, looking up at him. The snowflakes were settling on his hair. “But usually it’s exactly five seconds after I just said the thing that got me into trouble.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Bookshop

“We learn from bad things, too.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“This feels . . . like happy times come to life again. Like stepping back into that life. And now I shall read it to my own great-grandchildren. Because that’s what books are, aren’t they? A coming home.”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

“And it sounds strange, but more people, I believe, live in peace and harmony than at any time in human history, even if it doesn’t always feel that way. And a lot of that has to do with increased mutual understanding of one another. Which we find, often, between the covers of a book. I feel it is no coincidence that often our worst”
― Jenny Colgan, Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop