166 Quotes by Lisa Jewell

I’d been secretly fantasising about you waking up fully restored back to factory settings.

I’m not going to tell you that in ten years you’ll look back and wonder what the hell you were thinking, because I remember being twenty-one and thinking that my personality was a solid thing, that me was set in stone, that I would always feel what I felt and believe what I believed. But not I know that me is fluid and shape-changing.

But nothing was often everything in forensics. Nothing could often be the answer to the whole bloody thing.

Because deep down inside, she was scared. Scared of being alone, scared of being an outsider. Scared that she had all of her chances of happiness; and blown each and every one of them.

All those hopes and dreams and talk of ballerinas and pop stars, concert pianists and boundary-breaking scientists. They all ended up in an office.

I’ve told her not to come here expecting validation or exemption from the usual rules of human decency.

Moving on is something that happens to you, not something you do. That’s what people don’t realize. Moving on is not proactive. It’s organic. Be kind to yourself.

I’m really sorry I can’t pay you back,” I said. He shook his head. “My father’s going to take everything you own and then break your life. It’s the least I can bloody do.

May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.