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“Marriages, like dreams, didn't just happen; you had to do some work to get there”
― Faith Hogan, The Guest House by the Sea

“allowed life to slip through her fingers, just a little with each passing year, until the gossamers of time had pulled so finally away that it was almost too late to make anything of what was left.”
― Faith Hogan, The Girl I Used to Know

“happy ever after may be very different to how you could possibly have imagined, but that didn’t make it any less happy.”
― Faith Hogan, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

“It anchors me in a place that’s mine within the vastness.”
― Faith Hogan, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

“If it’s for you, it won’t pass you.”
― Faith Hogan, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

“the delicious feel of the ocean cloaking her whole body and soul. Lying on her back, with the icy waters about her, looking up at the stars dotting the black sky was her release. For the ten minutes of capering about in the stinging cold, she felt altogether and utterly more alive than she’d ever imagined possible.”
― Faith Hogan, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

“Time and uncomplicated circumstances wait for no woman. Life is for grabbing it as it comes long, believe me, I know that much for sure”
― Faith Hogan, The Guest House by the Sea

“Perhaps it was the sense of how completely irrelevant all her fears were in the face of the utter vastness of the sea and sky around her. She loved the silence and the roar of the ocean, the velvet sky and the inky water. Mostly she loved the fact that it made her feel alive in a way that nothing else could.”
― Faith Hogan, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

“Death, or unexpected death, was cruel like that, yanking away the person you loved so brutally that it seemed as if they were forever stranded between two worlds. She could never quite let him go and yet, she knew he wasn't really here any more”
― Faith Hogan, The Guest House by the Sea

“maybe she had finally tipped over into a state of happy lunacy, but she didn’t care. For the first time in far too long, she felt what it was to be truly blissful.”
― Faith Hogan, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

“It’s never too late to be the man you can be, nor is it ever too soon.”
― Faith Hogan, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

“When she swam out far enough to feel as if she was being swallowed up in the vastness of the waves above her head, she felt as if suddenly she was at one with something far greater than she’d ever felt before. Crazy as it sounded, it was as if the sky, the ocean and the unfathomable depths below her all blended into one and she was as intricately linked to this vastness as she was to the tips of her toes or the tiniest molecule of DNA in her body.”
― Faith Hogan, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

“Perhaps it was the sense of how completely irrelevant all her fears were in the face of the utter vastness of the sea and sky around her.”
― Faith Hogan, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

“We want to do the right thing for everyone else and it’s only really when you get to my age that you begin to see that doing the right thing means starting with yourself, with the sort of life you want to live.”
― Faith Hogan, The Guest House by the Sea

“he was far too tied up with the importance of being right to understand the meaning of”
― Faith Hogan, The Girl I Used to Know

“peered”
― Faith Hogan, My Husband's Wives

“We either confront it or we forgive, but we learn to live with things, not run away from them or hide behind something that’s shiny enough to cover over the pain momentarily.”
― Faith Hogan, The Bookshop Ladies

“That was the thing with guilt. You had to pay it back with interest at some point.”
― Faith Hogan, The Bookshop Ladies

“Somehow”
― Faith Hogan, The Bookshop Ladies

“It wasn't that she was shallow, exactly, but everyone knows, looks are important for media work...”
― Faith Hogan, My Husband's Wives

“All you needed add to the mix were a couple of friends, an energetic dog and lashings of lemonade and spam sandwiches.”
― Faith Hogan, The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

“It was after five by the time Cora arrived back in Ballycove. She'd spent a bomb and it hadn't made her one bit happier. Who on earth said retail therapy actually cured anything? She was just wrecked tired with a lot less cash in her bank account”
― Faith Hogan, The Guest House by the Sea

“think, it’s only as we get older that we see the value of having neighbours and people around us, people who care and matter to us.”
― Faith Hogan, The Guest House by the Sea

“if she”
― Faith Hogan, The Gin Sisters' Promise

“The familiar din of emptiness drummed louder than any other noise on earth”
― Faith Hogan, The Girl I Used to Know

“genuflect”
― Faith Hogan, The Sisters of Hope Square: The new gripping and heartwarming saga from the million copy bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies

“There is only the road you choose to take.”
― Faith Hogan, The Guest House by the Sea

“So why did she feel this heavy weight of emptiness instead, as if her marriage was some black hole and she was in danger of falling in and suffocating while life went on without her?”
― Faith Hogan, The Guest House by the Sea

“After all, books should be about escaping the mundane and stepping into worlds you didn’t want to leave.”
― Faith Hogan, The Bookshop Ladies

“there couldn’t be a happy ending if you didn’t have some pain along the way.”
― Faith Hogan, The Bookshop Ladies