Jill Mansell Quotes

And just because she was crossing her fingers didn't mean her wish would come true.

Because this was what happened when you loved someone too much and they didn't love you back. They grew stronger and you grew weaker and more helpless. They humiliated you and you let them do it. And you ended up with no self-respect, not even caring that other people were pointing and laughing at you ...

Sometimes it only takes a split second for a state of absolute calm to turn to one of horror and panic

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

Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed?

Ah, the old don't-need-a-man thing. I love that line. I mean it sounds great, and girls love to say that stuff because it makes them sound all strong and independent. But it's not actually true, is it? Deep down they're panicking, getting more and more desperate, and the next thing you know, they're hurling themselves into a new relationship.

The more you didn't want to bump into someone, sod's law dictated that the more often you would.

On the surface she might put on a good show, making fun of herself and her manless state, but inwardly it was hard sometimes not to wonder: Why me?

Sometimes wonderful things did happen, out of the blue and for no apparent reason. And what else could you do but go along with it and just be grateful that the person you loved more than anyone else in the world loved you too?

What if everything she most dreaded was happening now?

If you marry for money, you end up earning every penny.

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.

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

Another brittle hug from Adele - it was like being embraced by a Ryvita

Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.

Sometimes dreams trick you into believing they're real. And then there are other times when, completely out of the blue, life suddenly becomes surreal that you wonder if perhaps you're dreaming after all.

Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea.

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

I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach ... I think I'm in love with you ... Actually no, that's not true. I know I am.

Just because it's normal doesn't make it any easier.

Once a Pot Noodler, always a Pot Noodler.

Was this rock bottom? Had he finally hit it?

She looked down at the hand and saw that it was clutching instead a handful of perfume card samplers, each one sprayed with a different scent.

The thing is, I was so bursting for the loo that I thought my bladder was going to explode. I could hardly speak, let alone make it up your stairs. When you threw the key down and I had to bend over to pick it up, I thought that was it, I was going to flood the road! And I'm not even exaggerating. I've never been so desperate in my life.

She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out.

But money or no money we're all searching for the same things aren't we It doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have. Love and happiness that's what it's all about

Clemency marvelled, trying a purple eyeshadow shot with gold sparkly bits on the back of her hand

All in all, the next minutes surely ranked among the most calamitously awkward of Ronans life.

Having to pretend nothing was wrong, when everything was wrong, was excruciating.

Maybe when she'd been eighteen it was a quality she might have laughed at, but at twenty-eight, dependability had turned into something of an aphrodisiac.

Abbie wondered why she was even bothering to stay alive, when she was evidently so gullible and pathetic and pointless. The only thing that stopped her taking an overdose was, she couldn't be bothered.