228 Quotes by Jane Green

The biggest mistake any of us can make is to keep secrets. They always come out in the end, and it is the unspoken that causes the most problems.

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 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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.