Jane Green Quotes

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

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

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

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.

I don't need Mr. Perfect...I already have you.

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

Good. She is planning lunch on the deck today, is on her way into town via her neighbor's house, where she has spent the last hour or so

Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

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

Amazing how spending some money, especially when you haven't got it, can perk you up.

Things have a habit of working out in life the way they are supposed to, if you are able to just relax and trust in the workings of the universe.

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

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.

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

we're the only ones in control of our happiness.

Bad things always happen in three.

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

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

Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it.

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

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

I have a gorgeous office at home but tend not to write there because there are so many distractions.

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.

Alcohol made me beautiful in a way I never felt the rest of the time.

I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.

The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

I no longer think you can live without passion.

Life is where you look, right? I mean look for the bad, you'll find more of the bad, look for the good, you'll find more of the good.

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

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.

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

Once the intimacy has gone, however well you may get on, however friendly you may become, it is hard to believe it was ever there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.

Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong!

When you're working from home and you've got children, a big night out is going to Pizza Express down the road.

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

Love is love, Nell, in whatever form or shape it comes and those of us who have found it must not let anything get in the way.

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.

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

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

Other people's behavior is non of my business.

I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,

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

Good relationships require kindness, commitment, and appreciation.

When it's right, it's right.

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships.

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

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

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

I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.

Other people's behavior is none of my business.

My mother grieved appropriately for a woman who had lost her husband of almost thirty years so tragically, and then, after six months, she blossomed.

I'm just scared that you've fallen for the way he's treating you rather than for the man himself.

Everyone in that garden knew it was only a matter of time before he kissed her.

A cougar is a sexually active and confident woman who's a predator. Tell me you not flattered.

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

I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.

I am not someone who's very good at looking after herself, and I am also not someone who goes on holiday very often.

My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books.

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

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

I only seem to attract losers, cute losers, but I've just never been able To resist that lethal combination of black hair and green eyes.

Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

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

I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.

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 am not a big skier, but I love apres-ski wear and imagine I would look great in an all-white, fur-trimmed ski suit.

Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the early stages.

What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.

For as long as I can remember, I have always had the feeling of not quite fitting in, not being the same as everyone else.

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

As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books
the
one true love of my life when growing up.

I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn't make much of an effort.

My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.

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