Author: Jenny Colgan

Cites

• Walter de la Mare (1)
  • IN: Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sitting under the mistletoe (Pale-green, fairy mistletoe), One last candle burning low, All the sleepy dancers gone, Just one candle burning on, Shadows lurking everywhere: Some one came, and kissed me there,
    FROM: Mistletoe, (1913), Poem, UK
• Alan Jay Lerner (1)
  • IN: Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You'll never find peace by hating, lad. It only shuts ye off more from the world. And this town is only a cursed place if ye make it so. To the rest of us, 'tis a blessed place!'
    FROM: Brigadoon, (1947), Play, US
• The Waterboys (1)
  • IN: Little Beach Street Bakery (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I wish I was a fisherman Tumbling on the seas Far away from dry land And its bitter memories Casting out my sweet line With abandonment and love No ceiling bearing down on me 'Cept the starry sky above With light in my head You in my arms Woohoo!
    FROM: Fisherman's Blues, (1988), Song, England/Ireland
• Sir Patrick Spens (1)
  • IN: Little Beach Street Bakery (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Rise up rise up you fine young men The ship she sails in the morn Whether it's windy, whether it's cold, or whether there's a deadly storm
    FROM: Traditional, (1350), NULL, UK
• Voltaire (2)
  • IN: The Little Shop of Happy Ever After (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
    FROM: "Liberty of the Press" in Dictionnaire philosophique, (1764), Article, France
  • IN: The Bookshop on the Corner (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Christmas Surprise (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
    FROM: Ecclesiastes 1-8 (King James), (-165), Bible, NULL
• Charles Dickens (1)
  • IN: The Christmas Surprise (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
    FROM: A Christmas Carol, (1843), Novel, UK
• Roald Dahl (1)
  • IN: Sweetshop of Dreams (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In 1932, the Milky Way appeared in the U.S., followed by Mr. Mars Jr.'s invention, the Mars Bar, in the UK in 1933. In 1935, the Aero; in 1936, Maltesers; and in 1937, the Kit Kat, Rolos, and Smarties. In music, the equivalent would be the golden age of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. In painting, it was the equivalent of the Italian Renaissance and the advent of Impressionism at the end of the nineteenth century; in literature, Tolstoy, Balzac, and Dickens...
    FROM: The Chocolate Revolution, (1997), Article, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Café by the Sea (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: hiraeth (n): a homesickness for a home to which you canno return, a home that maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for lost places in your past
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL