Quotes from Jane Green

I don't think it matters who you love, just as long as you love. Who cares whether it's a man or a woman? Why does that have anything more to do with the person inside than the color of someone's skin? Personally, I'm pretty fucking disappointed that I seem to be one hundred percent heterosexual.

I suppose you can't help who you fancy, can you? And that was the bottom line, I fancied Nick. Fancied him more than I'd fancied anyone in years, and somehow, when someone gives you that tingly feeling in the pit of your stomach, you stop thinking about the rights and wrongs, the shoulds and should nots, and you just go with it.

It wasn't what you knew, he always said, it was who you knew.

Good relationships require kindness, commitment, and appreciation.

But he had already planned. Already planned the holiday. The proposal. Even the ring.............., he loved her, but he wasn't sure that love was enough.

Allowing ourselves to show our vulnerability is how we make human connections. If we're not showing other people our true selves, our weaknesses and flaws, how can we ever allow ourselves to be known?

She would talk to him in the car, ask him something, then turn on the radio and find her question answered by the lyrics of a song; pick up a book and turn to a random page, to find the words that were exactly what she needed to hear. There is no such thing as coincidence, she would think, blowing a kiss of thanks to the heavens.

There is something magical about young love, when you still think that the world is your oyster and you have your whole life ahead of you.

You hate your job. Oh, come on, don't even. You hate your job and you just told a partner you're handing in your written notice. The world is your oyster, Meredith. Now you just have to figure out what you want to do. How do you feel? Be honest. How does it feel to walk away from two giant parts of your life that were making you miserable?

You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.

Because I'm attractive and sucessful so if I can't get a man I must be failing at something?

You can't grow as a person," she said sadly, ignoring my joke, "when you close yourself off emotionally. It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

Sometimes not thinking too hard is the easiest thing of all.

Horrible as this is to admit, I think I cried less because my dad was dying than for the dad I had never had.

happens every time. She gets up to go to the bathroom, leaving her bag behind to focus very intently on walking in a straight line. She's not drunk, she tells herself, but finally starting to relax. The worry of losing her job to the dreadful Louise is starting to recede, and life is looking rosy again, despite no plan and no viable ideas. In the bathroom mirror she

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The only best friends she has ever really had, has ever wanted, could ever truly count on, is Elliott.

Both trying to suppress the knowledge that hugs like this mean only one thing. GOODBYE.

No! Sally said. I didn't want you here in the first place. Why are you here? What do you want from me? Do you want to take my stuff? She snatched the tiara from her head and cradled it against her chest. Is that it? You think you can come here and help yourself to my pre- cious jewels? Get out of here! I can't stand you, Grace. 1 never could. Always whining, whining, whining. Why are you here? What do you want from me? You always

The point is, you have a choice, and you do the right thing; you don't act on it.

Whenever our friends get involved with married men we hear about what they say and it's always the same and we always tell our friends that he's never going to leave her, but the minute it happens to us, the minute we meet a married man and he says he loves his wife but he's not in love with her, we believe him.

1 thought my entire life was coming apart, but 1 think 1 just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

She walks along the pavement, lost in thoughts about the Internet, so deeply immersed that before she knows it she's at her front door, and guess what? She completely forgot to buy some chocolate on the war home.

Marriage should be about fun. It's about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun.