Kate Forster > Quotes

“Some women are mothers and some aren’t. Even if you grow a child within you, you can still fail them once they're out in the world. And you can be an exceptional parent and not have ever even conceived a baby.”
― Kate Forster, Starting Over at Acorn Cottage

“And then he kissed her. Slow and easy, just their mouths touching, and then he felt her tongue. He let his join hers as they explored each other's mouths.”
― Kate Forster, Head Over High Heels

“women settled for average men because very few were spectacular.”
― Kate Forster, Starting Over at Acorn Cottage

“Sometimes the only thing we can do is survive. We can go through life showing people we are coping and functioning but inside us, we know we’re only pretending and we hope that no one else will ever find out.”
― Kate Forster, Starting Over at Acorn Cottage

“Sometimes Lily thought about having a baby one day, and then wondered how she could when she was the baby in her own life. Trying to remember to drink water or eat vegetables, to clean her teeth and to actually change her sheets instead of sleeping on the other side of the bed.”
― Kate Forster, The Best Worst Christmas

“I had a rescue dog like her once. Took two years for her to allow George to pat her but then she would sit on his knee of a night and look at me as though I was the mistress and she was the wife.”
― Kate Forster, Starting Over at Acorn Cottage

“The last seven weeks have been crap without you. All I wanted was to talk to you, see you again Kiss you.”
― Kate Forster, Unlucky Break

“He pushed against her, their hips grinding slowly, and it was Lyssa's turn to moan.”
― Kate Forster, Head Over High Heels

“I want you to make love to me,' she whispered.
Dan waited for a moment before he spoke. 'You sure?”
― Kate Forster, Head Over High Heels

“Just be true to yourself. What would you like to be doing?”
Lily shrugged. “I don’t know. I think about it a lot, more than a lot. But I don’t know what I want to do. I’m such a millennial.”
― Kate Forster, The Best Worst Christmas

“I like finding out how my characters want their stories to end and then working out how to make the reader feel on that journey. I often feel as though I am transcribing someone’s life story, more than creating it, as the characters feel very real to me while I write.”
― Kate Forster

“She missed a feeling that didn’t exist anymore.”
― Kate Forster, The Best Worst Christmas

“How could you live your best life if you were so busy being what other people wanted, that you forgot what you really wanted?”
― Kate Forster, Starting Over at Acorn Cottage

“Also by Kate Forster The Sisters”
― Kate Forster, Starting Over at Acorn Cottage

“asked”
― Kate Forster, Hashtag Love

“introduced me to the best thing I’ve found in”
― Kate Forster, Hashtag Love

“because”
― Kate Forster, Hashtag Love

“Street”
― Kate Forster, Hashtag Love

“genuinely,”
― Kate Forster, Hashtag Love

“Her curls were from ancestors unknown, and it always gave Tressa a thrill to think of the relative who bequeathed the hair to her, generations later, like a charm.”
― Kate Forster

“smiled down the phone at him. ‘I need to send some things to a couple of magazines but I don’t know their addresses, can you wait while I look it up?’ She grimaced at wasting his time. ‘Tell me which magazines.’ ‘Vogue and Tatler,’ she said as she furiously typed the names into her computer. ‘Don’t worry, I know where they are. We send things to them all the time. Where’s the charming Cressida today?’ ‘She’s busy. I have this gig now,’ said Tilly diplomatically. ‘Lucky me,’ said the voice. ‘Are the items ready to be picked up now?”
― Kate Forster, Hashtag Love

“Tilly stared at her phone. Should she suggest they meet, or was it too soon? Spurred on by the sugary icing she’d just eaten, she sent him a text.”
― Kate Forster, Hashtag Love

“You just said it - you're back now. So how about you make it yourself?”
― Kate Forster, Unlucky Break

“Cooking is like love. You should fall into it with complete abandon or not at all.”
― Kate Forster, Christmas Wishes at Pudding Hall

“Simon”
― Kate Forster, Christmas Wishes at Pudding Hall

“purse. As she opened it, she saw a small edge of plastic poking out of the inner pocket. Pulling it out, she saw it was a small bag of cocaine from a party a few weeks ago, the night she had signed the contract for Socialites in the City. Looking at it for a moment, she rushed into the kitchen and, after tapping out a small amount, pulled out her credit card and cut it up, quickly and expertly. Making a thin line, she opened a drawer in the kitchen and pulled out a packet of drinking straws. Cutting one in half and then half again, she bent over and snorted the line up her nose. She then turned on the tap, sniffing hard, and then ran her fingers under the water. Taking a few drops of water onto the back of her hand, she snorted the water into her nostril and massaged either side of her nose, stretching the skin and letting the drug absorb into her system. Violetta shook her head and felt the buzz begin. She checked her nose in the mirror and then smiled at herself. ‘Showtime,’ she said, plastering a smile on her face as she left for the party. *”
― Kate Forster, The Sisters

“she was carefully putting the Monte Carlos onto a pretty plate decorated with violets. ‘Do you think Joe and Rachel might become an item?’ Clara asked, as she pulled out Tassie’s cups and saucers. ‘Oh, I can’t say yet,’ said Tassie vaguely. ‘Could be. I saw a little heart in my cup this morning.’ ‘Perhaps we should seek out a Wise Woman in Chippenham and see if we can’t make a spell for them to fall in love,’ said Clara with a cheeky smile at Tassie. ‘Oh no, dear, you can never do a love spell for someone else, because it comes back to you.’ Clara wasn’t sure if Tassie was serious. ‘What do you mean?’ ‘If we do a love spell for Joe to fall in love with Rachel, then he might fall in love with us, and the last thing I need is a man hanging about my garden with a hangdog face. I have already had a litter of rescue dogs in my lifetime to care for.’ Clara laughed. ‘I love that! Well, if he fell for you, it would be because you’re amazing and you are the”
― Kate Forster, Starting Over at Acorn Cottage

“picked”
― Kate Forster, Hashtag Love

“Until there is something that changes us and we know we can’t go back to living like that anymore. We have to move forward. We make a huge change. We do something drastic. For some women the first sign is cutting their hair. For others it’s letting go of everything and by everything, I mean every cup and saucer, every shred of responsibility in life. They climb mountains or open an orphanage, or plant a garden. But they are changed and they know they can never go back to that life again.”
― Kate Forster, Starting Over at Acorn Cottage

“And then she kissed him. Because she realized life was too short for purgatory. And he was being completely honest with her. Love wasn’t always like the movies. There were many paths it took and not all of them were straightforward. Some were murky and dark with shadows and some had obstacles and secrets to be unearthed before people could find their way to each other. But whatever the path, it only required a person to carry three things to navigate it: a sense of humor, hope, and above all else forgiveness.”
― Kate Forster, The Christmas Star