Cathy Bramley > Quotes

“I wanted my home to be a haven, like coming in from the cold to a big warm hug.”
― Cathy Bramley, Conditional Love

“She could be ill, or loaded, or anything. The row of three little red-brick cottages, nestling”
― Cathy Bramley, White Lies and Wishes

“Part of me wants a man to sweep me off my feet and take care of me, the other part wants to punch any man in the goolies who'd even dare to suggest such a thing.”
― Cathy Bramley, Hetty’s Farmhouse Bakery

“In the months since I’d split up from Eric, I’d never really missed being half of a couple. But now I yearned for a broad chest to lay my head on, to rub my cheek against the rough wool of a man’s jumper, for some loving arms to wrap me up and tell me that everything was going to be all right. I knew I could call Rosie and she’d be here like a shot. Or I could go up to The Evergreens and pour out my sorrows. But it wasn’t just any company I needed; I wanted to be loved again.”
― Cathy Bramley, Coming Home

“This is about your future. Nobody else can make the decision for you.”
― Cathy Bramley, Conditional Love

“you have to go out and make your future, not sit around waiting for it to find you.”
― Cathy Bramley, Conditional Love

“opening up my laptop for yet another game of guess the government’s new shiny idea for buggering up the education of our kids.”
― Cathy Bramley, The Sunrise Sisterhood

“She might have been ‘just a friend’, but to Liz she was the most important person in her world.”
― Cathy Bramley, The Sunrise Sisterhood

“thought it must be because I wasn’t special enough for him to love me. And”
― Cathy Bramley, A Match Made in Devon

“dawn is about the stillness and silence and being at one with the world”
― Cathy Bramley, Wickham Hall

“This was a truly magical place”
― Cathy Bramley, The Lemon Tree Café

“rolled her eyes dramatically. ‘I’m”
― Cathy Bramley, Appleby Farm

“Happiness is like perfume: you can’t pour it on others without getting some on yourself.”
― Cathy Bramley, A Perfect Arrangement

“Sorrento had got under my skin and I felt refreshed and energized.”
― Cathy Bramley, The Lemon Tree Café

“certainly before I’d even moved here. Benny had retired when the bank closed, but he’d remained the town’s unofficial banking advisor until he died during the summer. Both Nell and Olek had picked his brains about monetary matters and Daniel had asked him to look over the business plan for his greengrocer’s too. Every town needed someone like Benny. Someone to rally the troops, guilt-trip people into helping out for the good of the community, cajole people into selling raffle tickets and if you were a business, he was very persuasive when it came to buying advertising space in the town magazine, edited, of course, by Benny”
― Cathy Bramley, The Merry Christmas Project

“To our far left was the little island of Capri, and to the right, around the bay, Vesuvius smouldered away in the distance, rising green and blue above the horizon with the sprawling city of Naples around its base.”
― Cathy Bramley, The Lemon Tree Café

“She had a curvaceous figure, red hair pinned up into a bun and wore a low-cut pink dress. ‘Oh, don’t you two make a gorgeous couple; I’m so excited to meet you!’ she said in a broad Lancashire accent. ‘Ed has told me so much about you both. Haven’t you, love?’ Jo brushed cheeks with Ed in a self-conscious greeting and smothered a”
― Cathy Bramley, White Lies and Secret Wishes

“the bread bin and ran hot water in the Belfast”
― Cathy Bramley, The Summer That Changed Us

“Friends grow up and away from each other, like little moons joining somebody else’s orbit.”
― Cathy Bramley

“Me?’ I thought about it for a moment. ‘I want to feel safe and secure again,”
― Cathy Bramley, A Vintage Summer

“behaviour to me.’ ‘I thought nothing at”
― Cathy Bramley, A Cup of Ambition

“Nonna told us about growing up in the pretty town of Sorrento: diving off the rocks and swimming in an emerald Mediterranean Sea, watching the fishermen bring in their fresh catch at the Marina Grande, playing in the narrow streets around the Piazza Tasso when the square filled up with people dancing and drinking during festivals throughout the year. And, of course, the lemon groves which she had always hinted at but had never wanted to discuss until now.”
― Cathy Bramley, The Lemon Tree Café

“My stomach flipped; if he let her down again she’d never give him another chance, and really, who could blame her?”
― Cathy Bramley, A Match Made in Devon

“I never tire of that view,”
― Cathy Bramley, Love Is in the Air

“Guilt. Sadness. Emptiness.”
― Cathy Bramley, White Lies and Wishes

“arched”
― Cathy Bramley, Love Is in the Air