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1 " There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny, it wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary and if it wanted to it would. "
― Lisa Jewell , Vince and Joy
2 " She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above. "
― Lisa Jewell , The Truth About Melody Browne
3 " She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted and be totally accepted. She remembered how easy it had all been, how open and bright, like being in a whitewashed room with all the windows wide open. "
4 " you are the only woman I have ever met who I would want to be in a little house with, do you see? Other women make me want to get on boats and run away. You, you make me want to stay somewhere, so that I can see your face everyday. So that I can hold you everyday and watch you grow older. You make me want to be an adult man. You make me want to settle down. "
― Lisa Jewell , Before I Met You
5 " They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that. "
― Lisa Jewell , One-Hit Wonder
6 " It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak. "
― Lisa Jewell , Ralph's Party (Ralph's Party #1)
7 " I'd subliminally determined at this point that the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure. "
― Lisa Jewell , The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)
8 " Then she will marry the man whom she is currently trying to find both online and in real life, the man with the smile lines and the dog and/or cat, the man with an interesting surname that she can double-barrel with Jones, the man who earns the same as or more than her, the man who likes hugs more than sex and has nice shoes and beautiful skin and no tattoos and a lovely mum and attractive feet. The man who is at least five feet ten, but preferably five feet eleven or over. The man who has no baggage and a good car and a suggestion of abdominal definition although a flat stomach would suffice. This man has yet to materialize and Libby is aware that she is possibly a little over-proscriptive. "
9 " But she has five years to find Him and marry him and then another five years to have a baby, maybe two if she likes the first one. She's not in a rush. Not yet. She'll just keep swinging left, keep looking nice when she goes out, keep accepting invitations to social events, keep positive, keep slim, keep herself together, keep going. "
10 " Voyeurism was a form of control, like mental abuse, like rape, like bullying. It was nothing to do with the physicality of the action, and all to do with the feeling of power it gave the perpetrator, the balancing out of delicate ids and egos. "
― Lisa Jewell , Watching You
11 " All men are weak,' said Phin.'That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.'My breath caught at the power of this statement. I immediately knew it to be the truest thing I'd ever heard. The weakness of men lay at the root of every bad thing that had ever happened. "
12 " We're all different. "
13 " 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. "
14 " But, what if it's not a mistake? What if it's true?""Well then, my angel... you'll be a very rich woman indeed. "
15 " But, what if it's not a mistake? What if it's true?Well then, my angel... you'll be a very rich woman indeed. "
16 " 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. "
― Lisa Jewell , Then She Was Gone
17 " They weren’t bad books,” Phin countered patiently. “They were books that you didn’t enjoy. It’s not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a ‘good book’ for someone. "
18 " Friends can be a pain. They can be demanding and hard work. But maybe that's because they're the wrong friends. I read a quote once, can't remember who by, but they said that your friends aren't necessarily the people you like best, they're just the people who got there first. "
19 " As the father of your children, as a friend, as someone who shared a journey with you and as someone who loves you and cares about you. I don’t need to be married to you to be all those things. Those things are deeper than marriage. Those things are for ever. "
20 " Stories,” she says, “are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream. "
