Bella Osborne > Quotes

“If she'd realised the last time she was hugged was significant she would have paid more attention, committed it to memory so she could recall the sensations at will for the many times since, when all she had needed had been for someone to hold her.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“I guess. I'm one of those people where what you see is what you get”
― Bella Osborne, Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands

“Every book is a key that unlocks another world, leads us down the path of a different life and offers the chance to explore an unexpected adventure. Every one is a gift of either knowledge, entertainment or pure escapism and goodness knows we all need that from time to time.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“Someone once told me that grief is like any wound, it needs time to heal. Thing is, it's not a scab on your knee, so you can't see how It's getting on.”
― Bella Osborne, A Family Holiday

“Dog are awesome. They don't care if you're clever or not; they just like to hang out with you”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“Holly Cross isn't about Christmas.. What it's really about is community. It's the people. Christmas is just an excuse. It gives them a purpose to get together, to support each other and create something special that benefits others. It's the people who make Holly Cross, not Christmas”
― Bella Osborne, The Perfect Christmas Village

“Blythe grimaced and crossed her fingers. She was a very rare species, an almost mythical creature like the unicorn; she was an honest estate agent with scruples and a conscience”
― Bella Osborne, The Perfect Christmas Village

“Like the rest of you, I always thought the library would be here. I never expected it to be under threat. It’s a stark reminder to not take anything in life for granted. You only properly start fighting for something when you realise you’re going to lose it.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“How did you explain that people had left you battered and bruised until the person you were had disappeared without a trace?”
― Bella Osborne, The Girls

“The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“you’re neither use nor ornament.”
― Bella Osborne, It Started at Sunset Cottage

“It was a lot easier in my day when everyone went to clubs. You’d check someone out one week, snog them the next and if he took you for chips when the club closed you’d arrange to meet him in daylight.”
― Bella Osborne, The Promise of Summer

“She always added vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to her wash, dried her clothes on the line whenever she could and used little bags of thyme, rosemary, and cloves instead of mothballs.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“We thought we'd get you the perfect boyfriend. He's silent, low maintenance and wipe clean. We've called him Plastic Stan”
― Bella Osborne, Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands

“She had spent half her life catching her feelings like flailing butterflies and trapping them in imaginary glass jars; locking them away. It was far better to set them free.”
― Bella Osborne, A Family Holiday

“Some people don't see anyone from one week to the next apart from at the library. This is a lifeline for those people.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“Effie wasn't a reader. She didn't feel she needed to be. She had enough stories going on in her head”
― Bella Osborne, Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands

“Perhaps there was never much there on Sam's side after all; maybe she'd imagined more than there was, because it seemed to be very easy for Sam to walk away. Then again was she the common denominator? It seemed everyone found her easy to walk away from”
― Bella Osborne, The Perfect Christmas Village

“Friends aren’t merely the tumbleweed of faces that roll in and out of your life. Friends are the ones you connect with and who last a lifetime. You’ll pass a million people on your path and just a few will be worth spending time with.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“She’d been happy and she’d been loved by a good man. She’d lived a life. All very long ago now though. All that was left were shadows of happiness that had lingered briefly before disappearing like smoke in the breeze.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“She calls alcoholism a disease that haunts the soul.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“Books provided a secret door to escape through – something she had often been grateful for in her life.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“Books provided a secret door to escape through – something she had often been grateful for in her life. She’d been grateful of the library too. Many a time she’d needed somewhere safe and quiet to run to and the library had never let her down.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“It says a lot about you that you didn't take the easy option. It's easy to blame other people. It's far harder to look to yourself for the answers.”
― Bella Osborne, A Family Holiday

“Blythe unclenched the teeth she didn't realise she was clenching. She knew she was clutching at straws and not the robust, plastic un environmentally friendly, last-for-a-million-years type - her straws were flimsy, paper and decidedly soggy. But they were all she had”
― Bella Osborne, The Perfect Christmas Village

“She wasn’t one for offering false hope, only practical solutions.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“carriage.”
― Bella Osborne, The Promise of Summer

“book is a key that unlocks another world, leads us down the path of a different life and offers the chance to explore an unexpected adventure. Every one is a gift of either knowledge, entertainment or pure escapism and goodness knows we all need that from time to time.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“Living with an addict isn’t easy.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library

“Most of all Maggie missed the hugs. It was a peculiar quirk of polite modern society that without a partner or offspring in your life you were denied that one key comfort that humans require – the need for physical contact. An embrace can be on many different levels but the basic sensation of emotional and physical warmth given freely by another is most noticeable when it is no longer there.”
― Bella Osborne, The Library