Jules Wake > Quotes

“Mothers don’t hate their children.’ Her face brightened. ‘We might not like them all the time but we always love them.”
― Jules Wake, Covent Garden in the Snow

“Better? I always think good cake helps us reset things for a minute.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“memory had conveniently used the years to paper over the facts, her improved version of events making it easier to hold him wholly responsible for them going their separate ways. The resulting bitter anger had insulated her sense of failure and helped her move on. It took a while to recover from a broken heart. How much longer would it have taken if she’d acknowledged that the break was as much her own fault as his?”
― Jules Wake, Escape to the Riviera

“I am nothing like my mother.”
― Jules Wake, Notting Hill in the Snow

“All you can do is be your best and be kind to other people.”
― Jules Wake, The Wednesday Morning Wild Swim

“her”
― Jules Wake, From Italy With Love

“Far below, the bends in the river Thames were outlined by the lights of the city, shimmering and winking through the thinning clouds like elusive diamonds. Siena’s fingers clutched the armrest as the knots in her stomach tightened.”
― Jules Wake, From Paris With Love This Christmas

“She’s a people-pleaser. She’s desperate to do a good job for you but she’s terrified of getting things wrong. So, it’s easier not to do anything than risk making a mistake. She’s not very confident in her own judgement.”
― Jules Wake, The Wednesday Morning Wild Swim

“She loved the build-up, but somehow every year when Christmas finally arrived, the sparkle had burnt itself out. The actual holiday itself never seemed that enjoyable.”
― Jules Wake, From Paris With Love This Christmas

“finish up in the office”
― Jules Wake, From Paris With Love This Christmas

“I’m not happy … or rather I haven’t been. What is it that they say … I’ve only been living half a life”
― Jules Wake, From Italy With Love

“It’s difficult when ingrained perceptions, held for so long that they’re a part of you, are ripped open, and instead of the smooth skin you’ve always had, you’re now looking into an open wound.”
― Jules Wake, The Spark

“Thomas Merton expressed it beautifully, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Jules Wake, A Girl's Best Friend

“The trashed kitchen. This was deliberate desecration. There was a touch of spite about it. It was a deliberate kick back. She knew how much Mum loved this room.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“Today I’d been so busy that all those lurking, unwelcome feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, and failure had been firmly displaced.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“Smiles make a difference in life. They cost nothing and they can make a big difference to your day.”
― Jules Wake, Notting Hill in the Snow

“Good for him.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“When had she started going through life without asking any questions? Accepting things?”
― Jules Wake, From Italy With Love

“Just one kiss. One kiss. Would it be so bad?”
― Jules Wake, Notting Hill in the Snow

“Dratted animal.’ Ella’s mother stood glowering, hands on her hips, by an empty chopping board. ‘That dog has eaten the rest of the beef.”
― Jules Wake, A Girl's Best Friend

“the third door on the right.”
― Jules Wake, From Paris With Love This Christmas

“There are always tossers,’ she agreed. ‘But avoid them – you can’t change them. And remember, it’s their problem, not yours.”
― Jules Wake, The Wednesday Morning Wild Swim

“How had these soldiers managed to dehumanise another race so much that they no longer saw them as real people? People who lived, loved, laughed, had families – living, breathing people?”
― Jules Wake, The Secrets of Latimer House

“With a sudden flood of happiness, I just knew that for me, my job was no longer everything. I had a home, a ready-made family, and the parkrun, and it felt … enough. My life was full of things that I enjoyed and loved.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“I listened to the sharp, staccato beat of my shoes. To me they said, quick, precise and well-organised. And just because I wore high, sexy designer shoes (Russell and Bromley thank you; who can afford Jimmy Choos?!) I wasn’t like all the bitch bosses in romcoms. They were high but not super high, and made from supple, polished black leather. As sexy shoes, went they were workmanlike but expensive. I think shoes say a lot about you. I wanted people to know that I, Claire Harrison, had got where I was through hard work and intelligence but I still had class and style. Shoes have nuances and with this pair, I’d nailed it. Just like the meeting I was headed to. I’d worked all weekend to get this presentation to within an inch of perfection.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“immensely liberating. I always put so much pressure on myself to be everything to everyone. Self-sufficiency had become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Being capable, being the best meant people had left me to get on with it. I’d isolated myself. I never asked for help.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“You went into the back of me. In a car, it would be your fault.’ What? He had to be flipping joking. ‘You reversed into me. Look at the state of my shirt.’ I”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“It suddenly struck me, why did I set myself so many goals all the time? And why was I always desperate to be the best I could be?”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“hair, stoked an instant desire to be in the water. To feel the cool slide of liquid over her body and the soothing calm in her head.”
― Jules Wake, The Wednesday Morning Wild Swim

“tear”
― Jules Wake, From Italy With Love