Jane Green Quotes

... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

~ Jane Green

If you want to talk about it with someone, then I`m happy to listen, or try and help, but you should only tell me if you want to.

~ Jane Green

That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.

~ Jane Green

Forever feels a long time when you're eighteen. When you're away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant friendships that are so strong they are destined, surely, to be with you until the bitter end.

~ Jane Green

I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other person to like me.

~ Jane Green

You must work to live, not live to work.

~ Jane Green

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.

~ Jane Green

Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.

~ Jane Green

When people show you who they are, believe them.

~ Jane Green

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

~ Jane Green

People show you who they are, not by what they say, but by what they do.

~ Jane Green

She would talk to him in the car, ask him something, then turn on the radio and find her question answered by the lyrics of a song; pick up a book and turn to a random page, to find the words that were exactly what she needed to hear. There is no such thing as coincidence, she would think, blowing a kiss of thanks to the heavens.

~ Jane Green

There is something magical about young love, when you still think that the world is your oyster and you have your whole life ahead of you.

~ Jane Green

Bad things always happen in three.

~ Jane Green

You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.

~ Jane Green

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

~ Jane Green

They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.

~ Jane Green

I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.

~ Jane Green

Marriage should be about fun. It's about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun.

~ Jane Green

It's not what you think about that matters in life, it's what you actually do about it.

~ Jane Green

Secrets become harder to keep the older you get. The things you think you can suppress, those idiosyncrasies and fantasies you hope no one will ever discover, become harder and harder to hide as the years advance. Partly it is maturity-the fear of discovery grows smaller, less significant, for you learn that none of us is perfect, that human nature is flawed, that life twists and turns in all sorts of unexpected ways and it is okay to end up in a different place to where you expected.

~ Jane Green

It doesn't matter how many years go by, how grown-up we think we are, how much we presume we have changed or evolved, when we are back in our childhood homes, we become exactly who we have always been.

~ Jane Green

All those years when Ronni thought she was sick, all those years convinced that every mole was melanoma, every cough was lung cancer, every case of heartburn was an oncoming heart attack, after all those years, when the gods finally stopped taking care of her she wasn't scared. What a pity, she thought after the doctor first diagnosed her. Then, when she refused to believe it, after the second, and the third, agreed, she thought again, what a pity I wasted all those years worrying about the worst. Somehow now that the worst was upon her, it was peaceful, calming, as if this was what she had always been waiting for. Now that it was here, it wasn't scary at all.

~ Jane Green

I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Simpson's IQ. 

~ Jane Green

I don't think it matters who you love, just as long as you love. Who cares whether it's a man or a woman? Why does that have anything more to do with the person inside than the color of someone's skin? Personally, I'm pretty fucking disappointed that I seem to be one hundred percent heterosexual.

~ Jane Green

I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect

~ Jane Green

That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.

~ Jane Green

He turned and pulled her in, placed his hands on the sides of her face and gazed into her eyes, his head moving closer and closer----she still couldn't say anything, couldn't think of anything other than his mouth landing on hers.

~ Jane Green

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

~ Jane Green

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

~ Jane Green

Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it.

~ Jane Green

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

~ Jane Green

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

~ Jane Green

I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.

~ Jane Green