Quotes from Jane Green

Other people's behavior is none of my business.

You were so talented," her mother says, smiling. "It is such a pity you didn't pursue that. Don't marry someone because you think you need a partner. And don't marry someone who tries to mold you into what he wants his wife to be. You're better than that. Marry, if you do at all, only someone who loves you just the way you are. Because you are precious. There. I've said my piece. Are you still talking to me?" Meredith

You see what you want to see, And you hear what you want to hear. You dig?

The woman on the bike raises her head and looks at the sky, sniffs, smiles to herself. A foggy day in Nantucket, but she has lived here long enough to know this is merely a morning fog, and the bright early-June sunshine will burn it off by midday, leaving a beautiful afternoon.

The thing is love is really the most important thing. That in love feeling at the beginning settles down into a different, familiar sort of love, but it has to be there right from the start, otherwise it just won't work

He was sensitive, quiet. He liked parties that were small and intimate, where you could connect with people, hear one another's thoughts, not parties with roaring music, meat markets where you couldn't hear one another think.

sometimes, in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Her hair was grey and curly, her eyes a soft blue, her body seeming

People show themselves not by what they say but by what they do.

The key to happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie'.

Bad things always happen in three.

The bike crunches along the gravel path, weaving around the potholes that could present danger to someone who didn't know the road like the back of their hand.

If we keep doing what we've been doing, we will get what we have always got, and that isn't enough. I want something different for my life.

I know that sounds odd, but I have always felt that the English love children as long as they are polite, quiet, and well behaved. Americans seem to love children however they behave.

The fact is that blaming doesn't get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.

All those years of beauty, of a wonderful figure, and all I could think was that I was never pretty enough, never slim enough, never quite good enough. What I would give to have those years back, to appreciate them more, to appreciate the life I had while I was living it.

trust a man who doesn't like children or animals

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

Men haven't changed: they love the thrill of the chase, and if you hand yourself over on a plate they'll lose interest.

Alanna always says fine, even when Gabby can see the day hasn't been

She was the child with the flashlight under the duvet late into every night. She would breeze through a book in a day and a half, then read it six more times.

That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.

No, really, it's fine," says the woman, getting up to leave.