Quotes from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“Life was always easier, reflected Issy, when you were carrying a large Tupperware full of cakes. Everyone was happy to see you then.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“Baking is...Life. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes..”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“I want to go to the party!’
‘I said no.’
‘I’ve been totally good.’
‘You shot me with an arrow.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“Some’ll rob you blind, some’ll kick you when you’re down, but you spread some good feeling and some warmth about, and people like that. Aye.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“Muffins are just an American way of saying, ‘I eat cake for breakfast.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“She was at that age now where if she made too much fuss over them everyone assumed she was desperately broody and felt sorry for her, whereas if she wasn’t interested enough she was considered bitter and jealous and also secretly desperate for a baby but not able to show it. It was a minefield.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“Email was great, but she did miss being excited by the post. That was probably why people did so much Internet shopping, she reckoned. So they had a parcel to look forward to.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“Those were the 4:00 a.m. thoughts, when she felt so worthless and inadequate that it was almost funny. Not funny, but almost.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“How lovely to work at something you loved and knew you were great at, even if it was for a pittance and you occasionally got punched.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“He was from that generation—the type who didn’t change things just because they were tired of them, or they were outdated. You bought something, or married someone, and stuck with it.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

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“For the liquor of Miss Amelia has a special quality of its own. It is clean and sharp on the tongue, but once down a man it glows inside him for a long time afterward. And that is not all. It is known that if a message is written with lemon juice on a clean sheet of paper there will be no sign of it. But if the paper is held for a moment to the fire then the letters turn brown and the meaning becomes clear. Imagine that the whisky is the fire and that the message is that which is known only in the soul of a man – then the worth of Miss Amelia's liquor can be understood. Things that have gone unnoticed, thoughts that have been harbored far back in the dark mind, are suddenly recognized and comprehended. A spinner who has thought only of the loom, the dinner pail, the bed, and then the loom again – this spinner might drink some on a Sunday and come across a marsh lily. And in his palm he might hold this flower, examining the golden dainty cup, and in him suddenly might come a sweetness keen as pain. A weaver might look up suddenly and see for the first time the cold, weird radiance of midnight January sky, and a deep fright at his own smallness stop his heart. Such things as these, then, happen when a man has drunk Miss Amelia's liquor. He may suffer, or he may be spent with joy – but the experience has shown the truth; he has warmed his soul and seen the message hidden there.”
― Carson McCullers, quote from The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

“Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, quote from Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Chainfire

“Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Saturday

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