Jilly Quotes

He thought of Hilary's tantrums, of her vacuum-cleaner kisses, her sharp teeth and scraping hands. ~ Jilly Cooper

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home. ~ Jilly Cooper

I eat gaijin for breakfast ... His words trailed off as Jilly came out of the house, in her pseudo-frock, her combat boots, her spiky hair and her young, young face. He just stared at her, motionless, as if someone had clubbed him over the head with a mallet.
Jilly froze where she was, staring back at the exotic creature in black leather and bright red hair who'd invaded the garden. ~ Anne Stuart

the looniness of the long distance runner - pounding along country lanes, so anxious to lop off seconds he never stops to marvel at a field of buttercups or a flock of geese against the sky. ~ Jilly Cooper

My own parents loved each other very much. ~ Jilly Cooper

I loathe the telephone - vile, shrill-voiced intruder. i'd never answer it at all if I didn't feel I might be missing something: a million-pound offer from a film company or Robert Mitchum asking me out to lunch. I hate the element of uncertainty - you never know if it's going to be a friend or a foe on the line. I wish they'd invent a telephone which turned green like a breath-test when it was an enemy ringing, so I needn't answer it. ~ Jilly Cooper

Hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself. ~ Jilly Cooper

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do. ~ Jilly Cooper

Jilly looked at it with a sinking heart. It was difficult enough when the exotic, undeniably gorgeous creature of her fantasies had turned out to be an obnoxious bully. Of course he had to have a Harley, as well, completing the perfect bad-boy image. With the tattooed teardrops on his high cheekbones and spiky, waist-length, flame-colored hair and his long, leather-clad legs and pointy-toed cowboy boots, he was almost irresistible, despite his manners.
A Harley sealed the deal. He was all her adolescent fantasies come true.
And it was time to grow up. ~ Anne Stuart

Are you all right to drive without me talking you home?" He laughed a little. "You know what? I can't remember doing this before. Talking to a woman for over an hour on the phone." "You can't possibly expect me to believe that," she said. "I know you've had a million women!" "Not like you, Jilly. I was always looking for women who would take me to bed. It never occurred to me to look for a woman who would take me to heart. ~ Robyn Carr

I thought you'd be halfway to Tokyo by now," she said, stalling.
"Not without you."
Oh, man, she was so screwed. He was bad enough when he was giving her shit. Right now he was looking at her as if
she was the most precious thing on earth, and she knew what she looked and smelled like. The world had turned upside
down.
"I don't suppose you love me," she said. "Even a little bit?"
"Don't be an idiot, Ji-chan. Why else would I be here? Now, do you want to stay here or do you want to prove you're really
crazy and come with me?"
"Will you grow your hair again?"
"If you want me to."
"Then tell me."
"You're not going to make this easy, are you? Su-chan warned me about you."
"She warned me, too. Tell me."
He let out a long-suffering sigh. "Aishiteru," he muttered.
"In English."
"I love you. ~ Anne Stuart

In our vile English climate, rough winds shake not only the darling buds of May, but of June, July, August and September as well. ~ Jilly Cooper

People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried ... ~ Jilly Cooper

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo. ~ Jilly Cooper

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying. ~ Jilly Cooper

She managed to finger-comb her hair into some kind of order, though it was a little too punk for her peace of mind. Not that she'd ever minded looking punk; in fact, the cut had been designed for that effect. But right now Reno was punk enough for both of them. ~ Anne Stuart

Doing this would be like starting with a paper cut and trying to bandage it with a machete. ~ Jilly Gagnon

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half. ~ Jilly Cooper

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight. ~ Jilly Cooper

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men. ~ Jilly Cooper

Jilly Beaton's a vicious cow. Inspectors love her, but she's a cow when they've gone."
"Back home in Argentina," sniffed Isabella, "cows are very important, but they know their place. ~ Gabriella Poole

When my time is up, I want to cross a River Styx of pure root beer.
- Jilly
Page 30 ~ Dean Koontz

With a thick note of disbelief in her voice, Jilly said, 'You went through the wall to California?'
[Dylan] 'Yeah. Why not? Where'd you think we went-Narnia? Oz? Middle Earth? California's weirder than any of those places, anyway.'
Page 246 ~ Dean Koontz

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. ~ Jilly Cooper

You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you? ~ Jilly Cooper

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century. ~ Jilly Cooper

I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them ... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine. ~ Tracey Ullman

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers. ~ Jilly Cooper

The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading. ~ Jilly Cooper

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England. ~ Jilly Cooper

I'm bored stiff by ballet. i can't bear those muscular white legs like unbaked plaited loaves, and I get quite hysterical every time one of the women sticks out her leg at right angles, and the man suddenly grabs it and walks round in a circle as though he were opening a tin. ~ Jilly Cooper

The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary. ~ Jilly Cooper

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready. ~ Jilly Cooper

She should feel sick. Horrified, stunned. But the horrible truth was, she felt fine. He killed. He killed to protect her. And some
ancient, atavistic streak inside her wanted to preen and purr. She was one sick puppy. ~ Anne Stuart

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else. ~ Jilly Cooper

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes. ~ Jilly Cooper

It's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself. ~ Jilly Cooper

But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat. ~ Jilly Cooper

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down. ~ Jilly Cooper

I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off. ~ Jilly Cooper

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things. ~ Jilly Cooper

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can. ~ Jilly Cooper

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down. ~ Jilly Cooper

I'd never have written the big books in London. ~ Jilly Cooper

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things. ~ Jilly Cooper

Our house is so difficult to find that people always arrive late, which means that by the time we go into dinner, I've had so many dry Martinis I'm practically under the piano, and it no longer seems to matter that I haven't put the potatoes on. ~ Jilly Cooper

I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper. ~ Miranda Raison

I don't love you," he said. And he pulled her into his arms and kissed her, a kiss of passion and desperation, a kiss of deep
currents and longing. "I don't love you," he said again.
"Of course you don't," she murmured happily. And she followed him out the door, into the lion's den. ~ Anne Stuart

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing. ~ Jilly Cooper

If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural. ~ Jilly Cooper

Because - because I'm a monster!"

James rolled his eyes. "You're being dramatic. You fold your socks, Remus. Forgive me if I'm not trembling at the sight of you. ~ Jewels5