Top 100 Jane Green Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The reason most second marriages break up, I had read, was because of the children.”

— Jane Green

52. “Isn’t it funny how sometimes you can instantly connect with people? How, despite being almost strangers, you can feel that you have known someone all your life?”

— Jane Green

53. “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

54. “When we are tired, everything seems so very much worse.”

— Jane Green

55. “Good relationships require kindness, commitment, and appreciation.”

— Jane Green

56. “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

57. “The only best friends she has ever really had, has ever wanted, could ever truly count on, is Elliott.”

— Jane Green

58. “She was the child with the flashlight under the duvet late into every night. She would breeze through a book in a day and a half, then read it six more times.”

— Jane Green

59. “Love is love, Nell, in whatever form or shape it comes and those of us who have found it must not let anything get in the way.”

— Jane Green

60. “My life is actually very boring. The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.”

— Jane Green

61. “The thing is love is really the most important thing. That in love feeling at the beginning settles down into a different, familiar sort of love, but it has to be there right from the start, otherwise it just won’t work.”

— Jane Green

62. “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

63. “I suppose you can’t help who you fancy, can you? And that was the bottom line, I fancied Nick. Fancied him more than I’d fancied anyone in years, and somehow, when someone gives you that tingly feeling in the pit of your stomach, you stop thinking about the rights and wrongs, the shoulds and should nots, and you just go with it.”

— Jane Green

64. “She doesn’t think, doesn’t worry, has no anxiety. She feels no pressure when she is in her garden. She can weed for hours, losing all sense of time until her back starts to hurt and she remembers all the other things she has to do.”

— Jane Green

65. “Good. She is planning lunch on the deck today, is on her way into town via her neighbor’s house, where she has spent the last hour or so.”

— Jane Green

66. “My mother grieved appropriately for a woman who had lost her husband of almost thirty years so tragically, and then, after six months, she blossomed.”

— Jane Green

67. “The first place I go in someone’s house is their bookshelves. You can tell exactly who they are.”

— Jane Green

68. “Alcohol made me beautiful in a way I never felt the rest of the time.”

— Jane Green

69. “He was sensitive, quiet. He liked parties that were small and intimate, where you could connect with people, hear one another’s thoughts, not parties with roaring music, meat markets where you couldn’t hear one another think.”

— Jane Green

70. “Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.”

— Jane Green

71. “But maybe love doesn’t have to be about lust, maybe I could learn to love, maybe.”

— Jane Green

72. “I’m just scared that you’ve fallen for the way he’s treating you rather than for the man himself.”

— Jane Green

73. “The point is, you have a choice, and you do the right thing; you don’t act on it.”

— Jane Green

74. “She is too old to share her space with people she does not know, too set in her ways to share her space even with people she does.”

— Jane Green

75. “Shock doesn’t hit all at once. I have learned.”

— Jane Green

76. “For the first time in her life she found herself failing at something.”

— Jane Green

77. “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

78. “All I could see was that the one year I was really primed for holiday cheer, no one else was cooperating.”

— Jane Green

79. “It’s not what you think about that matters in life, it’s what you actually do about it.”

— Jane Green

80. “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

81. “She would use her beauty and her clothes as armor, rise above it and refuse to let anyone see how much she hurt.”

— Jane Green

82. “It was everything I had dreamed of, his hands snaking through my hair, my own wrapped around his back, unable to believe I had been given license to touch this boy I had loved for so long, license to hold him, to slip my tongue in his mouth, listen to him sigh with pleasure.”

— Jane Green

83. “Everyone in that garden knew it was only a matter of time before he kissed her.”

— Jane Green

84. “Her hair was grey and curly, her eyes a soft blue, her body seeming.”

— Jane Green

85. “No, really, it’s fine,” says the woman, getting up to leave.”

— Jane Green

86. “When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.”

— Jane Green

87. “What he didn’t do was control me, or try to mold me into a little wife, some old-fashioned, muted version of who I was. I saw many men do that to many women I knew. They would choose these vibrant, talented, beautiful women, and suck the life and passion and beauty out of them by bullying them into submission.”

— Jane Green

88. “Horrible as this is to admit, I think I cried less because my dad was dying than for the dad I had never had.”

— Jane Green

89. “I thought my entire life was coming apart, but I think I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.”

— Jane Green

90. “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

91. “Allowing ourselves to show our vulnerability is how we make human connections. If we’re not showing other people our true selves, our weaknesses and flaws, how can we ever allow ourselves to be known?”

— Jane Green

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

— Jane Green

93. “Sometimes not thinking too hard is the easiest thing of all.”

— Jane Green

94. “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

95. “Because I’m attractive and sucessful so if I can’t get a man I must be failing at something?”

— Jane Green

96. “Everyone wants to help,” she spat.”

— Jane Green

97. “Once the intimacy has gone, however well you may get on, however friendly you may become, it is hard to believe it was ever there.”

— Jane Green

98. “I wanted something seismic to happen at the end. I wanted him to wake up so we could somehow forgive each other, say we loved each another, move on with some sense of closure, for I knew this would be the last time I saw him, but he didn’t wake up, and nothing was said.”

— Jane Green

99. “She had never liked those kinds of parties, or truthfully, any parties at all. She was much better on a one-on-one basis, or with small groups of people she knew well and felt comfortable with. Much.”

— Jane Green

100. “No!” Sally said. “I didn’t want you here in the first place. Why are you here? What do you want from me? Do you want to take my stuff?” She snatched the tiara from her head and cradled it against her chest. “Is that it? You think you can come here and help yourself to my pre- cious jewels? Get out of here! I can’t stand you, Grace. 1 never could. Always whining, whining, whining. Why are you here? What do you want from me? You always.”

— Jane Green