Jane Green Quotes

... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad 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.

Jane Green

Waiting, Abuse, Domestic Violence

Jane Green (2002). “Bookends: A Novel”, p.188, Broadway Books

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Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

Jane Green

Together, Pieces, World

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When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.

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Girl, Independent, Insecure

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Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you're officially a grown-up when you've got another half. When you don't have to live in fear of other couples. When you don't have to feel you're not good enough.

Jane Green

Morning, Couple, Thinking

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

Jane Green

Reality, Long, Trying

Jane Green (2002). “Bookends: A Novel”, p.80, Broadway Books

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I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.

Jane Green

Jobs, Men, Thinking

Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.18, Broadway Books

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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.

Jane Green

Letting Go, Running, Track

Jane Green (2006). “Jemima J.”, p.249, Penguin UK

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

Jane Green

Writing, Creativity, Way

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

Jane Green

Home, House, Time And Love

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I want someone who will adore me so much that they cannot even walk past me without touching me in some way. I want someone who will worship me, even when.. I'm sitting around in fluffy slippers with no makeup on and hair scraped back. I'm sick and tired of being on my own. Most of the time I'm fine. Some of the time I even quite enjoy it. But at this precise moment in time I'm fed up with it. I've had enough.

Jane Green

Tired, Past, Makeup

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Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways

Jane Green

Thinking, Work Out, Twists

Jane Green (2006). “Swapping Lives”, p.10, Penguin

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I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.

Jane Green

Children, Husband, Grateful

"Christie Brinkley: Not My American Sweetheart" by Jane Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2008.

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Marriage should be about fun,” she says gently. “It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If it’s not fun, if you take it all too seriously, what’s the point? You know I’ve been with Andy for fifteen years, and the reason it still works is because he’s my best friend and he still makes me laugh. Admittedly, not all the time, and often we get completely bogged down in work, and the kids, and life, but he’s still the person I most want to phone when anything happens in life, and he’s still the person who makes me laugh the most.

Jane Green

Laughter, Fun, Kids

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Jules has always been one of those women that men go crazy about because she has enough self-confidence to say this is me, take it or leave it. And, invariably, they take it. Or at least try to. They love the fact that she doesn’t wear makeup. That her clothes, on her tiny, petite frame, are a mishmash of whatever she happens to pull out of the wardrobe that morning. That her laugh is huge and infectious, and, most of all, that she listens. She loves life, and people, and makes time for them, and even before Jamie came along men were forever falling in love with her.

Jane Green

Falling In Love, Morning, Crazy

Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.69, Broadway Books

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I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.

Jane Green

Passion, Thinking, Looks

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Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to literature I always judge books by their covers. First the cover will catch my eye, then I read the back of the book, and then finally the first page.

Jane Green

Hate, Book, Eye

Jane Green (2000). “Jemima J: A Novel”, p.67, Broadway Books

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My life is actually very boring. 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.

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Mom, Fun, Thinking

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When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.

Jane Green

Sarcastic, Writing, Sarcasm

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Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.

Jane Green

Pain, Heart, Fabric

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And suddenly I realize that although I've never thought about being in love with Nick before, all the right ingredients are there. I fancy him. I like him. He's my friend. He makes me laugh. I love being with him. And I start to feel all sort of warm and glowy, and screw the other stuff. Screw the stuff about him having no money, and living in a bedsit, and not being what I thought I wanted. I'm just going to go with this and see where it ends up. I mean, no one says I have to marry the guy, for God's sake.

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Mean, Being In Love, Laughing

Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.471, Broadway Books

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You are the best person I've met in years, and if I'd met you in a year's time, or maybe even a few months, I know we could be happy together, but I can't give you what you need.

Jane Green

Years, Giving, Together

Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.158, Broadway Books

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That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.

Jane Green

Broken Heart, Song, Morning

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Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.

Jane Green

People, Matter, Known

Jane Green (2007). “Second Chance”, p.11, Penguin

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

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Long, Painful, Painful Love

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

Jane Green

Thinking, Taste, Film

Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.187, Broadway Books

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