Quotes from Jane Green

It's not what you think about that matters in life, it's what you actually do about it.

Of course," reassured Cat, who then promised to not only send the actress the piece before it went in (her editor would have killed her—what

The place she felt happiest, the place she found her solace and joy, was in the pages of books. She

Being an introvert really means you recharge your batteries by being alone. You can be sociable, and outgoing and enjoy people, but only for limited amounts of time. Large groups and lots of stimulation exhaust an introvert.

She doesn't think, doesn't worry, has no anxiety. She feels no pressure when she is in her garden. She can weed for hours, losing all sense of time until her back starts to hurt and she remembers all the other things she has to do.

When we are tired, everything seems so very much worse.

I think the greatest gifts we can give each other in a relationship are the gifts of kindness and communication.

The definition of insanity is doing what you've always done and expecting different results.

Life is so easy when you are young, she thinks. You can say and do almost anything, safe in the knowledge that an apology will make everything better. The older you get, the more impact those harmful words and deeds have. Once said, those words cannot be unspoken.

But maybe love doesn't have to be about lust, maybe I could learn to love, maybe.

I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

In many ways, the story I'm about to tell you is not about romance at all. If anything, it is a story of life. Of how each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but that life rarely works out in the way we expect, and that our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways.

All I could see was that the one year I was really primed for holiday cheer, no one else was cooperating.

It just feels surreal. Every now and then it kind of hits me, but only for a short while, and then it carries on feeling like it didn't really happen, that he's going to walk in this evening and sit in front of the set drinking beer.

It doesn't matter how many years go by, how grown-up we think we are, how much we presume we have changed or evolved, when we are back in our childhood homes, we become exactly who we have always been

Luck is not on her side today. It wasn't on her side this morning when she woke up to hear a door slamming downstairs and her husband bel- lowing her name, and it isn't on her side now.

today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers

Well we all know blokes don't do detail, they do facts.

Jealousy is a horrible emotion, envy even worse. * * * Cat likes to think of herself as a nice person. But right now she is sitting in the back of a taxi snarling every time she thinks of Louise, and the glory now being heaped upon her since she got an exclusive interview with Polly Goldman, in which the soap star talked about her drug bust. "Louise isn't even a bloody news journalist," Cat mutters to herself, as the cabby

In my experience," says Teddy, "good relationships are based on kindness. On putting the person you love before yourself. On thinking of what you can do to make that person happy. Good relationships require kindness, commitment, and appreciation.

Most of the time, when I'm facing an evening on my own, I am absolutely fine. If anything, I relish that alone time, when my daughter is with her father; the luxury of eating whatever I want to eat, the relief at not having to provide

absolutely still at night, quiet and at peace, yet listen a little more carefully and you will hear the sounds of tossing and turning, of people struggling with dilemmas, of an inner turmoil that is anything but peaceful.

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knows what the problem is. She's too damn nice. She has interviewed plenty of celebrities, during each of which she forgets that she's