Quotes from Jane Green

talking to people. Within a few minutes, she starts to believe that they are in fact friends. She is seduced every time. In fact a few months ago

I was built for comfort, not for speed

I had absolutely no idea what to say to him, this man I had struggled

Cat watches

Absolutely,' I say. 'I do believe in fate, but I also believe that we control our destinies, and I'm not sure which I believe in more. I think that mostly I believe that life is a bit like a tree, and that there are several branches we could take. I think that's where the controlling our own destiny bit comes in. If we choose a certain branch then our life will go one way, and fate will throw things at us from then on.

But fairy tales can come true, and just like Jemima Jones, or Mrs. Ben Williams as she's known outside of the glossy magazine where she now works, if we trust in ourselves, embrace our faults, and brazen it out with courage, strength, bravery, and truth, fate may just smile upon us too.

Kažu da je bol najja?i kada te neko prvi put povredi i da svaki slede?i put boli manje i ja verujem da u tome ima zrno istine, ali tako?e kažu da svaki put kada ti neko slomi srce granice izdržljivosti postaju sve manje, dok na kraju ne postaneš tvrda i cini?na i nespremna da ikome išta daš.

you don't have to wait for someone to treat you badly repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow

Jealousy is a horrible emotion, envy even worse.

Cat likes to think of herself as a nice person.

and the chef has long since moved on, but it is the perfect bar to have a couple of glasses of wine in a quiet corner while she gets out her notepad and jots down ideas. She needs ideas because time is running out. She needs to find a big story, and fast. Cat perches at the bar itself for the first glass of wine, surprised it disappears so quickly, taking a little longer over the

If Meredith tries contradicting him, he laughs indulgently and pets her, stroking her arm or cheek as if she is a mischievous cat.

Now you'll just have to experience what the rest of the single sisterhood goes through every time we give out our number. We sit glued to our phones for days on end, hating mankind, and thinking that if only we were thinner, or fatter, or blonder, or darker, or louder, or more quiet, he'd phone.

Muškarci. Verovatno jedini segment mog života koji je potpuna katastrofa. Ne da ih ne sre?em. pobogu, ?ini mi se kao da mile odasvud, samo što su oni koji odlu?e da izmile meni u susret po pravilu obi?ni crvi. Tipi?no, zar ne?

Just as there are moments when the words flow and it feels like the easiest job in the world, there are many more when I think I have nothing to say, and my journalism training taught me that writing is a job, that you write whether you are inspired or not, and that the only way to unlock creativity is to write through it.

Taking a risk is always frightening, but I gave myself a set period of time and had enough money to see me through. I operated from the belief that things would be okay, that if I wasn't successful I would find myself a job, but either way, I would be fine.

Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.

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 learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.

For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.