Nancy Garden Quotes

I love domestic life.

I definitely, definitely want a family.

My best evenings are at home with my lady.

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.

We have two kids, my wife and myself.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

I have a fairly normal domestic life.

I'd like to have a family.

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

Where thou art, that is home.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

I had just got married when I started writing my fourth novel. I'd come back from honeymoon, moved into our first house - a gorgeous little carriage house in London - and made my office on the third floor, overlooking the treetops in North West London.

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt more than happy just to be at home here in Canada.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

Even after marriage, our home is important for us.

I'm a homebody at heart, and I love to be around my dogs.

I have to say it has been so important to have your friends and family there for you.

For me, whatever happens there's nothing better than family.

If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.

I really love doing simple things. I'm surrounded by people all the time at work, so I want to have a normal life when I'm off duty: motherhood, food, and love!

If you meet a girl who says: 'Darling, what do you mean? Of course I wear suspenders. I've worn them all my life. I think tights are for old people,' then know this: she's desperate to have kids, she wants you and her to live in the same house as her mum, she never wants to go out and she just wants to lie on your chest for the next 15 years.

Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise me for my "all lowlifes, all the time" seduction policy. I wanted to come home and tell someone about my day. I wanted to go out dancing on the weekends. I wanted to take vacations together. I wanted someone to hold me when I was upset, when the ups and downs of the world pushed me too far. I wanted someone to love.