Emma Davies > Quotes

“being ordinary is extraordinary”
― Emma Davies, One December Morning

“No one could change the situation, but you could change the way you coped with”
― Emma Davies, Frankie Nightingale Begins Again

“Do you know there’s one thing I hate even more than a smart arse… and that’s a smart arse who thinks they’re funny.’ She glared at him. ‘Now bloody well shut up and show me what to do.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“My ideas are probably very different from yours, but essentially we want the same thing, and that’s to make this a success. I couldn’t bear to see another dream die.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“Happiness comes to you. It comes when you are living in the present”
― Emma Davies, One December Morning

“Drew isn’t a pushover by any means, but it was wearing, constantly trying to parry Roger’s pathetic attempts at undermining him.”
― Emma Davies, My Husband's Lie

“The sun made certain flowers open in the morning and close by dusk. Even the humble dandelion tracked its passage across the sky. Here the sun had brought a smattering of freckles to her face, and lifted the colour of her hair so that it glinted with a coppery hue. The rain by turn brought a beautiful freshness with it, a smell of earth and sky, catching the light like diamonds as it dipped to the earth below. Even the wind brought treasures, fragrancing the washing blown on the line, rustling through the trees, the noise a constant lilting companion to the day.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“find it easier to be the person I think I am, rather than the one I always pretended to be.’ She shook her”
― Emma Davies, Frankie Nightingale Begins Again

“It hangs with the sort of vibrating stillness that you often get in the middle of a summer’s day, strangely both enervating and calming at the same time.”
― Emma Davies, Letting in Light

“a carpenter,”
― Emma Davies, Letting In Light

“What had happened in the past was in the past, and no one would know about it here.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“I can’t believe you think it’s acceptable to even ask me to do such a thing, never mind actually expect me to do it. Can I remind you what my position is here? I’m your Development and Marketing Executive, not a builder’s navvy.’ ‘Yes, and I’m your boss.’ His eyes flashed at her. ‘You’re not actually, Agatha is. I’m sure when she gets to hear about this—”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“You have got to be kidding me?’ She couldn’t help herself. It was the first thing that came into her head. She stared at the pitchfork she’d just been given. If this was a joke, it was seriously unfunny. And if it wasn’t a joke… ‘Say that again, Seth, I don’t think I heard you quite right.’ He grinned at her. ‘I told you we’d get filthy.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“You need to be maximising your income at the earliest possible opportunity, not letting it slip through your fingers because your brains are in your trousers…”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“You out-and-out bastard,’ she hissed. ‘How dare you?’ ‘Me?’ Seth fired back. ‘How can you complain about what I said?”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“Not just a little weary, but the bone-numbing, mind-cauterising kind of tired that stalked your every move.”
― Emma Davies, Frankie Nightingale Begins Again

“I tried the stroking thing,’ she said, as he frowned at her, ‘but…’ ‘They’re hungry,’ he said, eyes glazed. ‘Oh…’ She looked at the two ravenous beasts in front of her and pulled her hands even closer to her chest. ‘I could feed them, maybe.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“Isn’t that exactly what grief is? Love with nowhere to go.”
― Emma Davies, One December Morning

“There are some things we can’t alter no matter how hard we try.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“now that she knew better, she rejected the seasonal hysteria. It was far simpler and far nicer.”
― Emma Davies, One December Morning

“Our choices in life aren’t always easy, but if they come from the heart they’re usually the right ones”
― Emma Davies, Merry Mistletoe

“At its worst, working for yourself can be the loneliest, most soul-destroying, self-doubting existence on the planet, but when it’s good… there is a soaring freedom and armour-plated feeling of invincibility that I wouldn’t swap for anything.”
― Emma Davies, My Husband's Lie

“She was almost asleep when she realised what she was doing. She would never let an animal sleep on her bed – the hairs, the germs! She sat up, grasping the dozing cat and, to its disgust, depositing it firmly on the landing”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“No worries of the past, no anxieties of the future, just the slow movements of the present, demanding nothing from me save my passage through them.”
― Emma Davies, Letting in Light

“There is so little native woodland left in relative terms, and despite our best efforts to destroy it, it clings to life. I like that. Nature is so tenacious, and I feel like some things deserve to be the best they can – they just need to be, to exist.”
― Emma Davies, Letting In Light

“The smell of baking bread the next morning could have drawn a dead man from his bed,”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“I didn’t hit him, did I?’ ‘No, Rumpus has lived to tell the tale.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“I think we often pretend to be something we’re not. I do it all the time.”
― Emma Davies, Frankie Nightingale Begins Again

“She wasn’t sure what worried her the most; the fact that he didn’t think her new country clothes were suitable, or that they were about to get very dirty.”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill

“around”
― Emma Davies, The Little Cottage on the Hill