228 Quotes by Jane Green

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.

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?

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie’.

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.

Other people’s behavior is none of my business.

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.

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?

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

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