Farmhouse Quotes

“I think there are plenty of people out there, men and women both, who have pined over someone who is unattainable — only to have their heart broken time and again.”
― Melissa Hill, Summer in Sorrento

“I suppose I am a glutton for punishment really, voluntarily attending a wedding to watch the love of my life marry another woman.”
― Melissa Hill, Summer in Sorrento

“No one deserves to be put through such an ordeal, to feel like you have to watch the love of your life get married, just to find closure.”
― Melissa Hill, Summer in Sorrento

“Meanwhile, on Dudley Road, stalks of rhubarb grew behind the blue-painted shed and roses bloomed on a bush above the cellar window. The swing set creaked. The stones in the garden path wobbled underneath my feet and there were pink sprigged cushions on the white wicker chairs on the porch. Inside, everything was pink and green, green and pink: the walls in my bedroom the color of the center of a raspberry thumbprint cookie, the floors the color of the sliver of green in after-dinner mints; the floor in my parents' bedroom the same, and the walls a smudged baby pink.”
― Charlotte Silver, Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood