Milly Johnson > Quotes

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.   Albert Schweitzer”
― Milly Johnson, A Winter Flame

“It's never to late to have a happy ending' Harvey Hoyland”
― Milly Johnson, The Teashop on the Corner

“First wish it. Then think of yourself doing it. Then do it.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“The bracelet was made up of blue cord, silver beads, and seven tiny wooden blocks each bearing a letter: CMWYNAF. “Is that Welsh for Mary?” joked Robin. Mary smiled. “It stands for call me when you need a friend.”
― Milly Johnson, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

“Because underneath her ex-husband’s charming, shining veneer lay a dark soul heavily marinated in ‘miserable bastard’.”
― Milly Johnson, The Four Seasons Collection: A Spring Affair / A Summer Fling / An Autumn Crush / A Winter Flame

“The greater your storm, the brighter your rainbow.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“I know we can only be friends, but I’m wishing there was a parallel universe somewhere out there and in it. . . you’re free.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“Men, she thought to herself with a sigh, didn’t really have to perform grand expansive gestures to have a woman melt inside. A simple arm crooked for their use was the equivalent of at least a dozen bouquets.”
― Milly Johnson, White Wedding

“She couldn’t live with this tearing agony in her heart any longer; it was killing her. In fact, she wished it would kill her and there would be an end to it, because she knew she couldn’t recover from it. There was nothing to live for: she couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, couldn’t concentrate, she couldn’t find any joy or hope in anything.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“You wanton hussy,’ said Deb. ‘I’m glad you approve,’ said Lou. ‘I most certainly do,’ said Deb.”
― Milly Johnson, The Four Seasons Collection: A Spring Affair / A Summer Fling / An Autumn Crush / A Winter Flame

“Lew was married and that was it as far as he was concerned. He’d never strayed and he never would. If he ever fell out of love with Charlotte, he’d end it and then move on, not try the waters beforehand.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“De twee vrouwen namen een grote hap spaghetti en de ober koos precies dat moment uit om terug te wippen en te vragen of alles naar wens was, waarop ze beiden hevig knikten en oergeluiden maakten. "Dat leren ze op de oberschool," zei Stevie nadat ze doorgeslikt had. "Wachten tot iedereen de mond vol heeft gepropt en het dan vragen. Dat vinden ze gewéldig. Het hoogtepunt van hun werk.”
― Milly Johnson, Perfecte liefde?

“She didn’t find him worthy of punctuation.”
― Milly Johnson, The Perfectly Imperfect Woman

“She’d thrown up the night before, had chronic diarrhoea in the morning. She was pretty sure, at least, that she wouldn’t vomit or mess herself during her address because there was nothing left in her system to expel. It was always good to find a positive, she thought.”
― Milly Johnson, The Perfectly Imperfect Woman

“Sometimes other people's rubbish held more answers for you than your own”
― Milly Johnson, A Spring Affair

“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
― Milly Johnson, White Wedding

“the point of life is living, here and now, being present in the moment. Watching a concert with your eyes, not trying to film it on a phone; living in a real world, not a virtual one, squeezing the juice out of every second, enjoying this journey for however long it lasts.”
― Milly Johnson, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

“Life isn’t fair, is it?’ ‘No, and the sooner that’s an accepted universal fact, the happier everyone would be,”
― Milly Johnson, Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Cafe

“Love – real love – is a privilege, not a right.”
― Milly Johnson, It's Raining Men

“All those years working down in London during the week. You must have had your opportunities.’ ‘Well I didn’t,’ said Lew convincingly, though it wasn’t strictly true. There had been an extremely bright and beautiful graduate who had an obvious crush on him and he’d found himself more than once wondering what it would be like to hold her. But he was married and he hadn’t even opened the door a sliver on that one. He’d made sure he was never alone with her, didn’t flirt with her and never gave her the slightest inkling that unfaithful thoughts had flitted across his brain. He was only human after all and he couldn’t do anything about involuntary reactions to her pheromones, but he could do something about not acting on what his perfidious brain was encouraging him to do.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“La nata siempre flota, cariño. Han agitado la botella, pero tú date tiempo y verás cómo, antes de que te des cuenta, vuelves a estar en lo mas alto.”
― Milly Johnson, The Teashop on the Corner

“Once upon a time she had been wrong in cutting herself off from everyone and floating out into a sea of loneliness. She had been lucky, at least, in being pulled back to shore by wonderful people who cared for her.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“Every day she discovered another record depth to plunge to: another abyss for her spirits to sink down into.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“You could keep all the fancy flowers and cars wrapped up in bows and surprise helicopter trips that millionaires and film stars gave out to their paramours. Nothing could compete with this moment for either of them. This was love.”
― Milly Johnson, The Yorkshire Pudding Club

“Winter.”
― Milly Johnson, A Spring Affair

“So when did you last save the universe then?’ said Adam. ‘Thursday,’ said Danny, and off he trotted to watch the rest of Crocodile Dundee.”
― Milly Johnson, The Birds and the Bees

“Her dignity was long gone. She was just a mess of tangled up feelings.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“It felt so cathartic to talk about things she had kept bottled up inside her for so long.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“She knew he wasn’t over the hurt, however much he pretended to be.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“We are both vulnerable people, and because of that, the membrane between sense and foolishness is very thin.”
― Milly Johnson, The Magnificent Mrs. Mayhew