166 Quotes by Lisa Jewell

Like I might be about to do something really, really stupid. And knowing I’m going to do it isn’t going to stop it from happening.

Her daughter is dead and her mother is dead and her husband lives with a woman who is nicer than her in a hundred different ways. But she is OK.

Memories fluttered about her mind, of days that had passed and died and were never to return.

She slept all night with the bedroom window open even though she knows women are advised not to. She arranged glasses in a row along her windowsill so that if a man did break in at least she would have some warning.

Cooking doesn’t just nurture the recipient, it nurtures the chef.

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you’re 26, and it’s all downhill after that.

Because that’s the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.

That was how she’d once viewed her perfect life: as a series of bad smells and unfulfilled duties, petty worries and late bills.

When I read a book it feels like real life and when I put the book down it’s like I go back into the dream.