33 Quotes by Jill Mansell

But even as the words were coming out of his mouth, he was slightly despising himself for saying them. It was what girls liked to hear though. Every now and again Dex found himself feeling like an actor who'd been performing in the same stage play for far too long. The lines came out automatically, irrespective of whether or not they were true.

For every wizened female tortoise there's a male tortoise who thinks she's irresistible.

Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal.

Desejava uma verdadeira livraria tal como um viciado deseja uma dose. Não havia mesmo nada melhor do que aquele maravilhoso cheiro a livros novos, tocar nas capas e folhear um livro, cujas páginas, se calhar, nunca tinham sido folheadas.(...)Há pessoas obececadas e apaixonadas por sapatos. Os sapatos eram bonitos, mas não se podia ficar a noite toda acordade a ler um par, pois não?

... the worst culprits were the ones who were secretly battling with their own feelings.

Oh my god, two days ago I fell in love with the girl of my dreams. Tonight I find out she's insane

Grief made you selfish; engulfed as you were in your own pain, it was hard to remember the others were suffering too.

She’d got so used to not wanting to go out and be sociable that saying no had become her natural default setting. The moment anyone invited her anywhere, her brain began scrambling for plausible excuses as to why she couldn’t make it.

This time, though, he was waiting for a reason. The process itself might be mind-crushingly boring, but if he stuck it out, the end result would hopefully be worth it.