C.P. Ward > Quotes

“Granny, what’s the most beautiful place in the world?’ With a soft chuckle, her grandmother had answered, ‘It’s right here, at home. But you won’t know that for yourself until you’ve been away and come back again.”
― C.P. Ward, Summer at Blue Sands Cove

“And he called me a gypsy.”
― C.P. Ward, Summer at Blue Sands Cove

“looked”
― C.P. Ward, Summer at Blue Sands Cove

“Things will work out, or they won't, but one way or another, you'll survive. You're looking down a tunnel right now, and you can't see the end, but all you've got to do is keep driving. And when you get there, you might find you're in a better place than you were before.”
― C.P. Ward, I'm Glad I Found You This Christmas

“Sometimes it's all right just to let the world pass by,' Angela said. 'None of us can stop it, after all. Just enjoy the passing moments. Be happy for what we have, and don't pine on what we don't. Look at me, I'm proper old and I still have hopes and dreams.”
― C.P. Ward, Autumn in Sycamore Park

“Changing the world is overrated,' Paul said. 'As long as you're happy in your part of it, that's what matters.”
― C.P. Ward, Summer at Blue Sands Cove

“Sometimes you can love someone but not fit with them. It’s the way of the world. And really, there’s no one true person for anyone, despite what the telly might have you believe. There’s a whole host of people who’d line up just fine.”
― C.P. Ward, Autumn in Sycamore Park

“Grace? Are you all right out there? If you’ve gone a bit deep, Ron can swim out and help you. He might look like a hippo but he can swim like a fish.”
― C.P. Ward, Summer at Blue Sands Cove

“I was in the middle of a book, but it wasn’t very interesting. There’s no story that can match the intricacy of real life, is there?”
― C.P. Ward, Autumn in Sycamore Park

“A problem shared was a problem halved”
― C.P. Ward, Autumn in Sycamore Park

“The surgery saved me, but I lost the use of my legs.’ ‘I’m so pissed,’ Grace said, sobbing into a tissue. ‘I can’t believe you didn’t tell me. We’re best friends.”
― C.P. Ward, Summer at Blue Sands Cove

“The good and bad of small towns, she said. Everyone's willing to help you out, but at the same time your entire life is common knowledge.”
― C.P. Ward, Summer at Blue Sands Cove

“We can't all be painting church ceilings. If you love what you do, you're sorted. Money is just a number. Happiness is uncountable.”
― C.P. Ward, I'm Glad I Found You This Christmas

“Really? What?’ ‘Your bike.’ ‘My … bike?”
― C.P. Ward, Summer at Blue Sands Cove

“You were the sum of your parts, not the sum of your numbers.”
― C.P. Ward, Coming Home to Me This Christmas

“It wasn’t that he had moved on. She was happy for him. It was that the hole her absence from his life had left had been so quickly and efficiently filled and raked over it was as though she had never existed at all.”
― C.P. Ward, Autumn in Sycamore Park

“Autumn was the best season, she thought. Fine weather, beautiful colours, but also a season of change, of fresh starts.”
― C.P. Ward, Autumn in Sycamore Park

“It was like eating a hard lump of garlic-flavoured rubber. She got two chews in, then an image of a snail popped into her mind, and she was done. She retched, jerking forward, the half-chewed whelk flying across the table towards Jason’s lap.”
― C.P. Ward, Summer at Blue Sands Cove