166 Quotes by Lisa Jewell

Voyeurism was a form of control, like mental abuse, like rape, like bullying. It was nothing to do with the physicality of the action, and all to do with the feeling of power it gave the perpetrator, the balancing out of delicate ids and egos.

I know it sounds like it was all just a terrible disaster. Of course it does. Any situation involving four dead bodies is clearly far from ideal.

But, what if it's not a mistake? What if it's true?Well then, my angel... you'll be a very rich woman indeed.

But, what if it's not a mistake? What if it's true?""Well then, my angel... you'll be a very rich woman indeed.

They weren’t bad books,” Phin countered patiently. “They were books that you didn’t enjoy. It’s not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a ‘good book’ for someone.

You will stay, won’t you? I have, as ever, royally overcatered.

Rejection was a fact of life. It wasn’t a nice fact of life. But it was a fact.

If you loveach other, whatever happens you can deal with it, you can work it out. Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that it’s really not much fun having an adventure with someone you’re not in love with.

She wondered if that was how it worked, that while most women spent their lives searching for the perfect man, men sat around waiting to be chosen and then made the best of it.