Lilly Mirren > Quotes

“Mamma says, children don’t make a marriage stronger, they test it for fault lines.” Angela chuckled. “If there are any weaknesses in it, children will be the catalyst for finding them.”
― Lilly Mirren, One Summer in Italy

“and”
― Lilly Mirren, The Summer Sisters

“How about you both accept that each of you is amazing, beautiful, and talented, and that life isn’t a competition but a journey we take together.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Waratah Inn

“I don’t want to miss out on the best things in life because I’m holding on too tight to the things I already have, things like my house, things that”
― Lilly Mirren, Christmas at the Waratah Inn

“Those days were such distant memories now, like whispers of a time past that would never come again. Whispers that couldn’t be caught, and if she grasped too hard at the memories, they’d disappear like a vapour.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Waratah Inn

“Family’s hard,” Nan often said. “But everything in life that’s worth something is difficult. It’s the things we have to work hardest for that bring the most reward.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Waratah Inn

“No one could bring joy to another without feeling some measure of it herself.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Waratah Inn

“She hadn’t realised how weak she’d gotten until she began to feel better.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Summer Sisters

“We all have our own stuff, my love. That’s why it’s important to show people compassion even when you don’t understand why they do what they do.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Waratah Inn

“He wished he knew how to stand up to a bully”
― Lilly Mirren, Christmas at the Waratah Inn

“The folded sheet of paper floated to the ground, caught on the breeze, resisted its descent a moment, then fluttered to the left and veered off the footpath, landing in a mud puddle. The shiver that rippled the water’s surface indicated the presence of a dozen or more tadpoles and Kingsley Fairbridge grimaced as he bent to retrieve the sodden paper. He shook the water from the pamphlet, regarded it with a sigh of despair, then continued on his way. His footsteps”
― Lilly Mirren, Beyond the Crushing Waves

“One of the hardest things about being a parent was letting go of control and watching your child make mistakes, watching them go through pain, unable to protect them.”
― Lilly Mirren, Christmas at the Waratah Inn

“The war had done a good job of tearing down the lives of everyone it touched.”
― Lilly Mirren, One Summer in Italy

“none of us can go back in time, we can’t rewrite the past.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Waratah Inn

“thought”
― Lilly Mirren, The Island

“You two were always so competitive. How about you both accept that each of you is amazing, beautiful, and talented, and that life isn’t a competition but a journey we take together.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Waratah Inn

“England’s elite for an”
― Lilly Mirren, Beyond the Crushing Waves

“ties”
― Lilly Mirren, One Summer in Italy

“tradition and Edie couldn’t be happier about it. The inn had been Paul’s idea, but she’d taken to it with gusto. With each month that passed after they arrived in the north, Edie had embraced a new aspect of their adventure. She’d worked with the architect they’d found in Brisbane to put together the best possible design. She’d selected every paint colour, each item of furniture, and the eclectic decorative items that were scattered over tables, buffets, mantles, and hung on walls. As it all came together, she’d embraced it, learned to love it in a way she hadn’t imagined she could. Keith loved it there as well. He spent much of each day traipsing through the sand to build sandcastles or cubbies. They’d bought him a book on botany and bird life for his last birthday, and she often found him sitting with it in his lap as he studied a bird or plant in front of him. He’d become a precocious, intelligent, and curious little boy, and being with him made her heart sing. Seeing their little family seated around the small dining table she’d set up in the kitchen, often brought a lump to her throat. They’d done the impossible, created a life out of the remnants evil had left them. And they were happy. Guests milled about behind them in the sitting room. The smell of apple cider filled the air. Paul had insisted she make it for the guests, though she’d assured him that a hot Australian Christmas didn’t need apple cider, it required”
― Lilly Mirren, One Summer in Italy

“smaller”
― Lilly Mirren, The Island

“limitations were a state of mind, not a fact.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Summer Sisters

“children don’t make a marriage stronger, they test it for fault lines.”
― Lilly Mirren, One Summer in Italy

“Regrets only shrivelled a heart, love expanded it to hold everything life now offered them — another chance at happiness, something she’d thought was behind her.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Summer Sisters

“It’s a normal rite of passage — stupidity and rebellion followed by repentance and reconciliation.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Island

“She loved him more than anyone else in the world. Was it her lot to have her heart broken over and over by the one person she’d chosen to give it to?”
― Lilly Mirren, One Summer in Italy

“eliciting”
― Lilly Mirren, Seaside Manor Bed and Breakfast

“ball”
― Lilly Mirren, The Summer Sisters

“But it’s important to remember, if you want to become a kind person, then you should stay kind even when your friends aren’t treating you with kindness. And if you want to be the kind of person who is treated well, then you don’t put up with being treated badly. This is an important time in your life. You can set the standards to live by for the rest of your life.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Summer Sisters

“necks bent smartly,”
― Lilly Mirren, Beyond the Crushing Waves

“everything in life that’s worth something is difficult. It’s the things we have to work hardest for that bring the most reward.”
― Lilly Mirren, The Waratah Inn