Juliet Ashton > Quotes

“Perhaps there is some secret homing device in books that brings them to their perfect readers.”
― Juliet Ashton

“Concerns of the day grow fangs in the middle of the night. All their colours are darker, they smell far worse, and they revel in their power.”
― Juliet Ashton, The Sunday Lunch Club

“We all share the sadness of loss. Unless we never love. And that would be an even greater loss.”
― Juliet Ashton, The Woman at Number 24

“The first time they’d made love – a mere five hours after they met, making Anna more or less a slut, and a happy slut at that”
― Juliet Ashton, The Sunday Lunch Club

“My premonition was right about the big love in store for me. Anna had been wrong that it was just about Luca. She’d been wrong that it was just for Ivy. The big love had been under her nose all along, around the table of the Sunday Lunch Club.”
― Juliet Ashton, The Sunday Lunch Club

“Usually she pranced around in high heels (…), relying on the anaesthetic qualities of Prosecco to see her through (…)”
― Juliet Ashton, The Sunday Lunch Club

“Once perfection is sullied, can it ever look the same again? If something is imperfect to begin with, nobody minds a few scuffs or scrapes.”
― Juliet Ashton, The Sunday Lunch Club

“will carry on loving you, and as long as you three remember me, I won’t die. I’ll live for as long as I matter.”
― Juliet Ashton, The Sunday Lunch Club

“Anna barely”
― Juliet Ashton, The Sunday Lunch Club

“If I was thirty years younger . . .’ ‘I, unfortunately, wouldn’t be born yet,’ said Luca.”
― Juliet Ashton, The Sunday Lunch Club