Quotes from Jane Green

That's the mark of true friends. That we might not see each other for a year but when we do it's as if we were never apart.

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

She is too old to share her space with people she does not know, too set in her ways to share her space even with people she does.

Other people's behavior is non of my business.

PROSCIUTTO- AND SAGE-WRAPPED DATES (Serves 6)   INGREDIENTS 24 fresh sage leaves 12 dates, halved, pits removed 1 pack prosciutto, each slice sliced lengthways down the middle 2 Tablespoons maple syrup   Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place a sage leaf on each date half, wrap with prosciutto, place flat side down on a baking sheet. Bake 10 minutes. Brush with maple syrup and serve.

don't we all turn into our parents over time? How can we avoid following that pattern as we age? We make choices about how we want to be seen in the world, but as we grow older don't we all forget to hold those constructs up, don't we all start falling into the patterns of our youth? Doesn't our essence always win out?

What he didn't do was control me, or try to mold me into a little wife, some old-fashioned, muted version of who I was. I saw many men do that to many women I knew. They would choose these vibrant, talented, beautiful women, and suck the life and passion and beauty out of them by bullying them into submission.

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

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. —MELODY BEATTIE

Everyone wants to help, she spat.

She can't explain why she is choked up. She isn't entirely sure, other than the sweetness of Patrick's familiarity, an aching nostalgia for her youth, a reminder of all that is good, and solid, and stable. All that she once had. All that she has lost. Patrick has grown into a big man. Solid. Imposing. His embrace is all-enveloping, tight, stable. Like being held by a bear. Safe, she thinks. I am safe. And almost immediately after: I have come home.

The best things in life always find us when we're not looking for them.

She had never liked those kinds of parties, or truthfully, any parties at all. She was much better on a one-on-one basis, or with small groups of people she knew well and felt comfortable with. Much

in which the soap star talked about her drug bust. "Louise isn't even a bloody

For the first time in her life she found herself failing at something.

but if I can't tell my best friend, who can I tell??

However close you are, you know that's another friend you won't be seeing anymore. You won't have anything in common anymore, since you are not interested in babies, and they are no longer interested in life.

The reason most second marriages break up, I had read, was because of the children.

women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.

She would use her beauty and her clothes as armor, rise above it and refuse to let anyone see how much she hurt.

People show you who they are not by what they say, but by what they do.

And, then, sometime between December 26 and January 1, the festivity ends and I straggle back to my apartment feeling exhausted, broke, and somehow lonelier than before. This is when I start wondering if it might not be better for everyone if Christmas were an event staged every four years, like the Olympics. But

One person can't be expected to fulfill all your needs; that's just unreasonable." "True

No seriously. She looks like a banana. She's wearing bright yellow and brown. It's making me hungry just looking at her.