Victoria Connelly > Quotes

“She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home.”
― Victoria Connelly, Wish You Were Here

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not just for entertaining us, although that would be enough.”
― Victoria Connelly, Mr. Darcy Forever

“There was no Delete button to help you erase an awkward scene. You couldn’t hit Backspace to get rid of all the rubbishy bits. You had to live with the decisions you made.”
― Victoria Connelly, A Weekend with Mr. Darcy

“I wonder what it is about a certain novel that ticks the boxes for a reader. I mean, for me, a story can have the most fascinating plot in the world, but if the narrator's voice is dull, then the plot counts for nothing. For me, authorial charm is everything.”
― Victoria Connelly

“Why is life a constant disappointment?'
'Because we read fiction,' Mia said, and Shelley nodded, knowing it was true.”
― Victoria Connelly, Mr. Darcy Forever

“Did Jane Austen ruin lives by giving people false expectations about love? Were her heroes just too good to be true? Could a real man of flesh and blood ever hope to live up to such paragons? And were books with happy endings cruel? Did they give their readers a warped view of the world and what they could expect from it?”
― Victoria Connelly, Mr. Darcy Forever

“That’s the only problem with novels,’ Mia said. ‘They give readers such high hopes that the real world can often be a bit of a letdown.”
― Victoria Connelly, Mr. Darcy Forever

“She needed a break from me. Well, real ones anyway. Fictional men were fine: they knew their place. You could just pick up a book, flick through to the right page, take your fill of your favorite hero and then return them to the shelf. Job done.”
― Victoria Connelly

“Nobody was going to come up to her and offer her a more fulfilling life, were they? She had to go out and find it for herself.”
― Victoria Connelly, The Beauty of Broken Things

“her healthier. If she’d never got cancer, she might easily have overloaded her body with all sorts of sugars, fats and chemicals and got diabetes. She truly believed that. Her new diet had saved her in so many ways and had allowed her to have a certain amount of control over her body. It was a positive focus on the good that she could do herself. So much of having cancer was out of your control, but her diet was something she alone was in charge of and she’d embraced her new regime with a vigour she didn’t know she had. It might not save her life, but it was at least going part way to saving her sanity. ‘I’m not sure I’ll be able to cope for six weeks with a health freak to my left and a meditating Buddhist on my right,’ Audrey said.”
― Victoria Connelly, One Last Summer

“Never give up. If you have a dream - no.matter what that dream is, whether it be to become a great actress ir to open your very own sweet shop- never stop.dreaming it, because if you do, life becomes one long nightmare”
― Victoria Connelly

“Wasn’t life extraordinary? One made plans, but then fate came along and said, ‘Actually, this is going to happen today.”
― Victoria Connelly, A Weekend with Mr. Darcy

“It’s a great day when you meet a new writer, isn’t it? It’s like an introduction to a best friend you didn’t know existed just hours before.”
― Victoria Connelly, The Book Lovers

“a lady’s imagination is very rapid”
― Victoria Connelly, Happy Birthday, Mr Darcy

“Very few modern men dressed well, she had to admit.”
― Victoria Connelly, Mr. Darcy Forever

“Why couldn’t love be rational like everything else? What right did it have to bulldoze through your reasoning and leave you spinning?”
― Victoria Connelly, Mr. Darcy Forever

“But life doesn’t always turn out the way you think it will,’ Robyn said, ‘and that can be rather wonderful.”
― Victoria Connelly, At Home with Mr. Darcy

“Facebook”
― Victoria Connelly, A Dog Called Hope

“You know,”
― Victoria Connelly, Love in an English Garden

“I feel that my time here is done now but I so want to leave something behind – my story. Will you write it for me? You said you would. It would be my way of living just a little longer”
― Victoria Connelly, The Secret of You

“I think loss isolates a person. Everybody is far too nervous to ask you how you feel, in case you have a breakdown in front of them. It’s much easier not to say anything and hope the pain goes away quickly and quietly.”
― Victoria Connelly, Mr. Darcy Forever

“She left the world with a smile,”
― Victoria Connelly, The Beauty of Broken Things

“Never give up. If you have a dream - no matter what that dream is, whether it be to become a great actress or to open your very own sweet shop- never stop dreaming it, because if you do, life becomes one long nightmare”
― Victoria Connelly

“Perhaps that was part of what had held her there for so long – the fear of letting something safe go and leaping into the unknown. Fear, he thought, could be a pretty powerful jailer.”
― Victoria Connelly, The Beauty of Broken Things

“You know what? I’ve always wanted to make a mosaic. Do you think that could work? To make something beautiful out of all these broken pieces?’ Luke looked at her in admiration, marvelling at the resilience of his friend. ‘Absolutely,’ he told her. ‘You could definitely make that work.”
― Victoria Connelly, The Beauty of Broken Things

“Darcy staring handsomely out from the shelves. Well, Colin Firth, really. ‘The face that launched a thousand bookmarks,”
― Victoria Connelly, Dreaming of Mr. Darcy

“Best safety lies in fear.”
― Victoria Connelly, Christmas with Mr Darcy

“Fictional men were fine: they knew their place. You could just pick up a book, flick through to the right page, take your fill of your favourite hero and then return him to the shelf. Job done.”
― Victoria Connelly, A Weekend with Mr. Darcy

“Sarah often thought it funny how she would think of the characters as if they were real people who had really lived, occupying this very world with the same strength of mind and passion as their creator.”
― Victoria Connelly, Mr. Darcy Forever

“She said it’s easy to love something that’s shiny and new, but it takes someone special to love the old, neglected things.”
― Victoria Connelly, The Beauty of Broken Things