Evie Gaughan > Quotes

“In a place called lost, strange things are found.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Lost Bookshop

“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“Sometimes if you just let things happen, rather than trying to force them, they come easier.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris

“There’s a fear in all of us, that we’ll lose the relationship. But I suppose, we end up losing ourselves instead.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“that to lose one’s intellect was akin to letting seeds wither and die in the dark ground”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“Maybe it wasn’t about dreams coming true (although that would be nice). Maybe it was about becoming the kind of person who chases them, regardless.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

“Life was like a great painting; if you only focused on one part, you would miss the full picture.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“realised that just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you get wiser. If anything, you become more protective of what little you can control in this life, shutting out all of the possibilities that require you to trust, have faith and let go.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

“There was something spiritual about trees that seemed to bring about an inner calm.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“It felt oddly satisfying to be frightened by something real, instead of the fears inside her own head.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“So you see, no matter what happens in life, given the right environment to prove, your life force will rise,”
― Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

“I’d forgotten how nerve-wracking it could be, asking someone if they wanted to hang out with you. As youngsters, we do it all the time, making new friends. But when you get older, it feels as though there is so much more on the line – the rejection is so much harder to take.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Lost Bookshop

“In my chest, a strange voice awakens and a song plays inside me a longing that is not mine. They say that ancestors, dead before their time, with young blood still in their veins, with great passion in their blood, with the sun still burning in their blood come, come to continue to live within us their unfinished lives. O, who knows, soul of mine, in which chest you will sing… ‘Silence’ by Lucian Blaga”
― Evie Gaughan, The Heirloom

“He told me that the love you have in your heart for someone you cannot be with is never a burden to be carried. It is a gift, he said. A gift you can share in other ways.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

“Our wills and fate do so contrary run,’ she said.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“The moon had grown tired of her antics and pulled the clouds back over its face, leaving Sarah in total darkness once more.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“began imagining all of the adventures that lay ahead, without a practical thought as to how I would survive alone in a foreign country.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Lost Bookshop

“Arecipe for disaster doesn’t require that many ingredients.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

“Maybe everyone was stuck in a role they never auditioned for.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“Remembrance was the best way to honour people.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

“Maybe everyone was stuck in a role they never audition for”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“Because once you start to grieve, you really have to accept that they’re gone.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“Maybe it wasn’t about dreams coming true (although that would be nice). Maybe it was about becoming the kind of person who chases them,”
― Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

“I looked up at his face, but he wore that same mask we all did, those who are left behind, trying to carry on. The club no one wants to be a member of.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

“mysticism. Feel isolation, rest, wander, listen to the ocean winds, linger, lost in the mists. When there are dark days and stormy nights, sit beside a blazing fire of fragrant peat in a peasant’s straw-thatched cottage listening to tales of Ireland’s golden age – Gods, heroes, ghosts and fairy folk. Then you will know Ireland and why its people believe in fairies.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“I knew not what lay ahead of me, but was keenly aware of what I was leaving behind. My mother would doubtless be distressed at my departure, if not for the loss of a daughter, then surely for the gossip and notoriety that would befall our family name. I was bringing shame to them both, but I had no choice. It was their pride or my future and I could not, would not, sacrifice myself on the altar of their expectations. I had enough schooling to get by, or so I thought, and would soon realise that the university of life was an altogether harsher education.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Lost Bookshop

“and at last I realised that just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you get wiser. If anything, you become more protective of what little you can control in this life, shutting out all of the possibilities that require you to trust, have faith and let go.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris

“She couldn’t recall the last time she had done something so impulsive and purely for herself. She kept expecting the panic to set in, but as she took in her new surroundings, all she felt was joy. ‘Maybe,’ she thought, ‘this is what following your heart feels like.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“You made your plans, but life had other”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector

“Thornwood is my kingdom and our cottage my castle.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector