228 Quotes by Jane Green

Isn’t it funny how sometimes you can instantly connect with people? How, despite being almost strangers, you can feel that you have known someone all your life?

Luck is not on her side today. It wasn’t on her side this morning when she woke up to hear a door slamming downstairs and her husband bel- lowing her name, and it isn’t on her side now.

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

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

What he didn’t do was control me, or try to mold me into a little wife, some old-fashioned, muted version of who I was. I saw many men do that to many women I knew. They would choose these vibrant, talented, beautiful women, and suck the life and passion and beauty out of them by bullying them into submission.

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

He was sensitive, quiet. He liked parties that were small and intimate, where you could connect with people, hear one another’s thoughts, not parties with roaring music, meat markets where you couldn’t hear one another think.

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?

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.