Cosy Quotes

“It was his manner - the warmth of him, like steam rising from tea. One looked at him and thought, Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“The train brought them home, but books could take them anywhere they imagined.”
― Luke Adam Hawker, The Last Tree: A seed of hope

“Girls were pure different from fellas. They lit the room with candles, got extra pillows and cushions from upstairs. Big bags of M&M's and Maltesers. Popcorn with lashings of butter.”
― Colin Walsh, Kala

“I felt a warmth inside, a cosy, glowy feeling like hot tea on a cold morning.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“All afternoon, all evening, I lay on the couch, wrapped inside a quilt of sitcoms, the same commercials stitching them together.”
― Namwali Serpell, The Furrows

“I like books too much.”
He paused mid-kiss. “What?”
“You don’t know me. So I’m telling you about me. So you’ll know me
and why it’s better if I leave. I read and I forget anything else exists. And I
don’t forgive anyone who isn’t careful with books. I hate people who tear
out pages, who bend corners, who break the spines.”
“Unforgivable,” he agreed.
She pulled back and frowned at him. “Are you laughing at me?”
“Yes. These aren’t flaws. They’re just . . . you. And I like you. Very
much.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Drag, to Misty, was freedom. Freedom to wear whatever she wanted, to perform whatever she wanted, to be whoever she wanted. It was a superpower”
― Holly Stars, Murder in the Dressing Room

“Anybody who had the cool mind and cold heart to leave a box of poisoned chocolates might very well be extremely calm under pressure. Oh yes, a poisoned-chocolate murderer was a cruel murderer indeed”
― Holly Stars, Murder in the Dressing Room

“Coorie is to feel included, warm and cosy. For reading a book together or telling stories. Fire on, as well.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“Coorie Tip: For a cosy light source guaranteed to withstand rain, buy battery operated fairy lights or frosted mini bulb string lights.
Wind them around your hand until they're tightly coiled then wedge into a mason jar before sealing the lid shut.
The result is a waterproof lamp worthy of a fairy glen.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“My shower wank earlier wasn't enough to help me survive the next few hours.”
― Lowri Charles, Call It Fête

“All this bullshit about workforce flexibility was a lie. It doesn't make sense to claim that companies hire contract workers for jobs that might be made obsolete, in order to make it easier to fire them in the future”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“If it's a contract job, call it that. Why tag on the word permanent? That's just wordplay. At the new company, they continue to dangle permanency like a carrot”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“It's all about creating an illusion, you see, if glamour's what you're after. You need shape and style. It doesn't really matter how cheap your outfit is for now. If you've got good hair and good shoes, you can carry it off”
― Holly Stars, Missing in Soho

“I'm not questioning whether plants can understand. It's just the opposite. I believe that they CAN understand what we say. That's why words come with responsibility.”
― Michiko Aoyama, MICHIKO ニューヨークデイズ―子育てを終えてからの留学記

“Oh, wait a minute, he passed last year. He died doing what he loved: cheating at canasta.”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“No, thank you. The old times didn't age so well”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“Never judge a fish by its scales, I suppose”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“You're going to trust this guy, just because he talks like Cary Grant? What if, once we get on the boat, he starts talking like Donald Duck?”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“I'm not getting on a boat with a strange man unless it's a five-star dinner cruise, do you understand me?”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“If this guy tried any funny business, I'll make him a knuckle sandwich so good he'll forget his own name”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“Wanna let an old lady in out of the cold before she becomes a popsicle?”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“I hope he mixes martinis better than he mixes his metaphors”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“I prefer the term 'petite' or fun-size, if you want to get cute about it”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“And you think educating today's youth is less important than your part-time assistant job at the museum?”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“Don't ruin the moment. This is better than All My Children”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“I'm just feeling a little warm is all. Did it get hotter than a firecracker on the Fourth of July in here?”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“I told you, I'm not as dumb as you all think I am. Sometimes I'm so busy listening that I don't always make sense when I'm talking”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“You geronoconkin”
― Rachel Ekstrom Courage, Death on the Lanai

“Bookstores are the happiest places on earth, They are sanctuaries of collected knowledge and house a multitudes of worlds - some created from fiction and others from opinion”
― Vivien Chien, Crime Rangoon