Celia Anderson > Quotes

“Leo and Uma”
― Celia Anderson, Onwards and Upwards

“baring”
― Celia Anderson, The Cottage of Curiosities

“It’s easy, imagine you’re walking through a meadow of long grass, enjoying the sunshine and the flowers and the birdsong and so on, and then you step on a rake that someone’s left there, prongs upwards, and it flips up and smacks you in the face. It bloody stings for a moment or two. Afterwards it aches for a bit and then the pain fades and you carry on walking.’ ‘Yes, I sort of see what you mean. But it’s always there, isn’t it?”
― Celia Anderson, 59 Memory Lane

“was the landlord’s birthday”
― Celia Anderson, The Cottage of Curiosities

“I’m the memory keeper and the memory maker too. It’s my legacy,”
― Celia Anderson, The Cottage of Curiosities

“They say grief’s like stepping on a rake,’ he says, pausing in his tea-making to try and get this right. ‘A rake? As in a garden tool? You’ve lost me.”
― Celia Anderson, 59 Memory Lane

“promises.”
― Celia Anderson, The Secret Gift of Lucia Lemon

“Some of us just carry it nearer to the surface. A lot bury it deeply so they don’t have to feel the pain.”
― Celia Anderson, The Secret Gift of Lucia Lemon

“We were lucky to have found the ones we were meant to be with.”
― Celia Anderson, Onwards and Upwards

“We’re both ready for the scrap heap and we don’t function properly.”
― Celia Anderson, The Secret Gift of Lucia Lemon

“Life’s short and we need to make the most of it.”
― Celia Anderson, Life Begins at 50!