Emma Davies > Quotes

“have no idea what I’m going to do now I’m not working but, for today at least, I’m going to enjoy my freedom.”
― Emma Davies, The Wife's Choice

“Does night follow day, or does day follow night? Do secrets lead to lies or do lies lead to secrets?”
― Emma Davies, The Wife's Choice

“Despite those times when things happen that we swear we will never forget, that we will never be able to move on from, that feeling lessens. We pick up our feet and we take a step forward. And after a while more time passes and the past becomes something we leave behind.”
― Emma Davies, The Wife's Choice

“The most important things in life always make us nervous. That’s how we know how much they mean to us.”
― Emma Davies, The Wife's Choice

“Frankie wasn’t much bothered by material things. She had her freedom and that made her rich beyond her wildest dreams. The Midnight Bakery”
― Emma Davies

“And the books don’t seem to mind. I’ve promised so many that I’ll get to them one day, and they’re still waiting, but so far none of the words have wandered off to find a reader who’s more reliable than me.”
― Emma Davies, The Wife's Choice

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― Emma Davies, The Little Island Secret

“We grow out of things, Alys. We grow out of people too.”
― Emma Davies, The Wife's Choice

“are right, but they’re coming from somewhere I don’t want”
― Emma Davies, After the Crash

“There’s peace in solitude, in being alone, and I found out to my cost very early on that wishing for things to be different doesn’t make them so. So you reconcile yourself to your present. You invite Grief in because she’s a part of your life now and isn’t going anywhere, so you might as well make her welcome. Besides, she’s a little like me – she’s mellowed a bit with age, and although she sometimes lies in wait for me around a corner, jumping out at me when”
― Emma Davies, One December Morning

“and that when the wind wasn’t full, or its energy was spent, I would be the one you would return to… always.”
― Emma Davies, The Wife's Choice

“And the worst thing is that I know you’re out there. Somewhere. That your life goes on, and yet I’m no longer a part of it.”
― Emma Davies, The Wife's Choice

“Then she sat, just for a few minutes, on the sagging bench by the memorial garden and thought about how lucky she was. She might not have much in her world, but she had everything she needed.
The Midnight Bakery”
― Emma Davies