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“There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner

“Everyone, if they are lucky, loses parents that they love, in the end.”
― Jenny Colgan, Sunrise by the Sea

“What do you think happiness is?” she asked him. “A by-product,” he answered immediately, “to being useful.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Bookshop

“Funny how random it seems, our meeting people who later prove pivotal to our lives, who will affect or directly influence decisions that will cause our lives to change direction. Or perhaps it's not random at all. Can we sense that certain people might nudge us onto a path we consciously or subconsciously would have taken anyway? And so we stay in touch with them. Or do we have a hunch that some people might challenge us or force us off a path we want to take, and so we decide not to see them again? It's remarkable how important just one person can become in determining how we act in critical situations, just because we happened to consult that individual in the past.”
― Vigdis Hjorth, Arv og miljø