Mandy Baggot > Quotes

“We don’t wish the day away. We embrace every second. Every new sunrise brings the possibility of possibilities.”
― Mandy Baggot, One Christmas in Paris

“I cannot speak for someone I do not know, but he was looking for adoration not love and there is a big difference.”
― Mandy Baggot, One Christmas in Paris

“Where they are setting up the market, it used to be a place for torture,” Julien remarked, indicating the place in front of them.
“Wow,” Ava said. “I know I said I wanted to ditch the romanticized idea of Paris with couples and hearts and flowers but I wasn’t thinking of touring all the places they once did waterboarding.”
― Mandy Baggot, One Christmas in Paris

“recall. ‘Although, knowing”
― Mandy Baggot, One Christmas in Paris

“I believe, in life, there is no such thing as a bad idea. Only ideas that work and ideas that do not.”
― Mandy Baggot, One Christmas in Paris

“When you bared yourself to someone, showed the pieces of yourself you were less proud of, scared of, ashamed of, you were truly free. And if that person accepted all those bits of you, loved you just as you are, it was golden.”
― Mandy Baggot, Truly, Madly, Greekly

“dancing’s about to start. We’ll watch that, have a few more”
― Mandy Baggot, Truly, Madly, Greekly

“He raised a hand and she closed her eyes on instinct. She waited, expected to feel his fingers in her hair. When he touched her she snapped her eyes open and let out a gasp. His index finger was tracing a slow, tender path from the side of her face and along her scar. No one had touched her scar before except her surgeon. No one had wanted to and why should they? It was horrible. It was ugly. It was a disfigurement. As if reading her mind, he spoke. ‘You’re beautiful, Honor.”
― Mandy Baggot, Made in Nashville

“Non ,’ he answered. ‘I blame the fact I have not been able to take my eyes off you from the moment we met.”
― Mandy Baggot, One Christmas in Paris

“I know why there are pink feathers down there! There's a fucking flamingo standing in the bath!”
― Mandy Baggot, My Greek Island Summer

“Weighing things up, wondering, worrying, looking at every tiny detail… that is a waste of moments. Think quickly and act always on your initial feelings.”
― Mandy Baggot, Under a Greek Sun

“To be honest with you, I think the problem with most things is expectation.’ He sighed. ‘Other people’s expectations, society’s expectations, everyone doing the same things because people have done the same things for centuries. There is no room for personal expression, for deeper personalised thinking, for living without pressure, for living gently.”
― Mandy Baggot, Meet Me Under the Northern Lights

“thank the food, Thano. The way we thank the people who grew it or fished for it. It gives itself to us so we may thrive. The very least it deserves is our gratitude.”
― Mandy Baggot, A Taste of Greek Summer

“Becky was a decent human being who had been brought up well. She cared. It was a good trait, but also her ultimate downfall.”
― Mandy Baggot, My Greek Island Summer

“Luxury does not have to cost the Earth,”
― Mandy Baggot, Meet Me Under the Northern Lights

“Perhaps she would, later, maybe turn them into a voodoo doll of the whole world.”
― Mandy Baggot, My Greek Island Summer

“UNDER A GREEK SUN MANDY BAGGOT”
― Mandy Baggot, Under a Greek Sun

“Rising up he put the box containing all of Mack’s words down on the table, pushed it forward with the very tips of his fingers. The letters, right here between them, where they, perhaps, always had been.”
― Mandy Baggot, Christmas by the Coast

“Life’s too short to waste it being someone’s workplace bitch.”
― Mandy Baggot, My Greek Island Summer