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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“His manly duties covered the gardening, the bulb-changing and general maintenance, the woman did the washing, ironing, cleaning.”
― Milly Johnson, The Queen of Wishful Thinking

“So if I say no, what are ye going to do? Refund me to death?”
― Milly Johnson, The Birds and the Bees

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

“She had a look of a woman sadly neglected. By herself more than anyone.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling

“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

“I said six, if that’s okay with you,’ said Juliet. Floz looked at the clock – that gave her five hours to look as if she hadn’t made any effort at all.”
― Milly Johnson, The Four Seasons Collection: A Spring Affair / A Summer Fling / An Autumn Crush / A Winter Flame

“Ven buried herself under her quilt and Frankie thought she heard some choice expletives of the Anglo-Saxon persuasion, although they were very muffled.”
― Milly Johnson, Here Come the Girls

“When a chance at happiness comes, grab onto it with both hands.”
― Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling