Jenny Oliver > Quotes

“How old did someone have to be before they could be put to use to make tea?”
― Jenny Oliver, Four Weddings and a White Christmas

“most delicious of his dishes ‒ a simple breakfast of his homemade bread, toasted, drizzled with thick, dark olive oil and spread generously with the pulp of the freshest tomatoes he could source. They had all converted from scrambled eggs and bacon sandwiches”
― Jenny Oliver, The Grand Reopening of Dandelion Cafe

“D’you know some of this lot are so afraid of winning that they don’t even try? That’s the bloody crew I’ve been lumbered with.”
― Jenny Oliver, The Vintage Ice Cream Van Road Trip

“If we were all perfect in our pasts then we’d have nothing to hope for in our futures.”
― Jenny Oliver, The Grand Reopening of Dandelion Café

“Something just out of reach was more appealing than something that might let her go.”
― Jenny Oliver, The Little Christmas Kitchen

“But perhaps, she realised, there were no victims. Just people.”
― Jenny Oliver, The Little Christmas Kitchen

“If we were all perfect in our pasts, then we'd have nothing to hope for in our futures”
― Jenny Oliver, The Grand Reopening of Dandelion Café

“her”
― Jenny Oliver, One Lucky Summer

“goals,”
― Jenny Oliver, Four Weddings and A White Christmas

“Sometimes people just aren't strong enough”
― Jenny Oliver, Four Weddings and a White Christmas

“how it was meant to be. Him squeezing her hand,”
― Jenny Oliver, The Sunshine and Biscotti Club

“What did Paris teach you?’ ‘Never leave your soufflé unattended.”
― Jenny Oliver, The Parisian Christmas Bake Off

“That’s the problem with parenthood. Half of it is spent waiting it out till it’s done and you can go back to the people you were before, but you don’t realise that the older your kids get the older you’re getting. Those before people have gone.”
― Jenny Oliver, The House We Called Home