Top 180 Lucy Foley Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I don’t like strangers. I don’t like change. Change has always been dangerous for me.”

— Lucy Foley

152. “Aoife also offered a 50 per cent discount if I held it here. She might look dowdy but she’s savvy. That’s how she clinched it. She knows I’ll feature it in the magazine now, knows it’ll get press because of Will. It’ll pay dividends in the end.”

— Lucy Foley

153. “And what must it feel like to live in this tiny hovel while surrounded by the luxury and space of the rest of the apartment building? What would it be like to live with the reminder of how little you have on your doorstep every day?”

— Lucy Foley

154. “I want to stand up and say my own piece, as though she’s the prosecuting barrister, and I’m the defence. That’s not how you’re meant to feel, listening to a speech from a loved one, is it?”

— Lucy Foley

155. “Part of the well-oiled machinery of the day. Less worthy of proper notice, really, than the chic arrangements of greenery, the wavering flames atop the silver candlesticks.”

— Lucy Foley

156. “I think of Will at the rehearsal dinner. Did we meet at the engagement drinks? You seem familiar. I must have seen you in one of Jules’s photos. When he said he recognised me, he didn’t recognise me. He recognised Alice.”

— Lucy Foley

157. “He should have known. Should have been less arrogant, less cavalier. Should at least have had a chain put on the door. And yet he thought he was invincible, thought that he was the one in control. He has been so stupid, so arrogant.”

— Lucy Foley

158. “I mean, in a way it was crazy good. i’ve never had so much action with so many different women as when I joined those apps, not even at uni. I had to get myself tested every couple of weeks.”

— Lucy Foley

159. “You didn’t have to continue trying to get acting jobs, I think. If you’d really wanted to put food on the table that probably wasn’t the most sensible way to do it. We didn’t have to spend your tiny income on an apartment off Shaftesbury Avenue in Zone One and not be able to afford to eat as a result. It’s not my fault you made some bad decisions when you were a teenager and got yourself knocked up.”

— Lucy Foley

160. “Rich people problems. Ruby says they manage to make everything into a drama because when you have no real difficulty in your life you end up creating your own.”

— Lucy Foley

161. “It’s a beautiful building, but there’s something rotten at its heart. Now he’s discovered it he can smell the stench of it everywhere.”

— Lucy Foley

162. “But I suppose an outsider might assume he was a boxer or something similarly pugilistic, rather than a very successful property developer.”

— Lucy Foley

163. “Partly because I like the whole minimal aesthetic. Partly because I still feel like I haven’t really moved in, because I like the idea that I could up and leave at any moment.”

— Lucy Foley

164. “And then the lights go out.”

— Lucy Foley

165. “There’s something reckless about her – it feels as though she might do anything. Unpredictable. Dangerous. And given this morning’s outing she’s clearly got issues with the police.”

— Lucy Foley

166. “He trusts you to be able to handle the situation on your own,’ Sophie says. ‘But perhaps that is simply too much to ask. Look at you. You’re a forty-year-old man still living under his roof, leeching off his money. He has given you everything. You’ve never had to grow up. You’ve had everything handed to you by your father on a silver platter. You’re both useless hothouse flowers, too weak for the outside world. Unable to fly the nest.”

— Lucy Foley

167. “Two revelations in one night.”

— Lucy Foley

168. “And I am unprepared, despite knowing what I have come to see. I have been ambushed, here in this place, by death. I thought that I could outrun it.”

— Lucy Foley

169. “Wounds inflicted at that sort of raw, unformed time in our lives tend to cut the deepest – and leave the worst scars.”

— Lucy Foley

170. “Not before I had begun half hating that little girl with everything she didn’t even know she had.”

— Lucy Foley

171. “Far better to have a second wife who could never make him feel inferior, who came from somewhere so far beneath him that she would always be grateful. Someone he could mould as he chose. And I was so happy to be moulded. To become Madame Sophie Meunier with her silk scarves and diamond earrings. I could leave that place far behind. I wouldn’t end up like some of the others. Like the poor wretch who had given birth to my daughter.”

— Lucy Foley

172. “She is nothing like my mother,” I spat. “Fran’s perfect.” “Is anyone?” my therapist mused. “That’s a difficult label for any human being to wear.”

— Lucy Foley

173. “Dad’s not a fan of celebrities, of anyone making their fortune by anything other than proper hard graft. He’s a proudly self-made man.”

— Lucy Foley

174. “As I revealed the lingerie that had been bought at great expense but hardly ever seen by eyes other than my own. Revealed my body, denied so much pleasure, kept and kempt for a man who barely glanced at it.”

— Lucy Foley

175. “I want to tell her to wipe off the lipstick and eyeliner, to stay in that safe childhood space for a while longer.”

— Lucy Foley

176. “And if I’m truthful, no, I didn’t really care about your brother. One key skill as a journalist is being able to read people. And can I be really, brutally honest now? Ben always seemed totally self-interested. Always out for numero uno.”

— Lucy Foley

177. “Trying not to poke myself in the eye with the rosemary. I wonder how everyone else with a gin and tonic is managing it without injuring themselves. Maybe that’s a thing that you get taught at private school – how to drink cocktails with unwieldy garnishes.”

— Lucy Foley

178. “Besides, hikers are all bright windbreakers and cellophane-wrapped lunches and earnestness, not the sort to callously litter the landscape they’ve come to enjoy.”

— Lucy Foley

179. “While Alice, a million times brighter and better than him – my clever, brilliant sister – never got her chance.”

— Lucy Foley

180. “Fat in this country is seen as a sign of weakness, even of stupidity. The thought gave me a nasty sort of pleasure.”

— Lucy Foley

181. “When you’ve got your heart set on someone Brad Pitt could walk in and he wouldn’t be enough.”

— Lucy Foley

182. “A pathetic thing to hope, but there you have it. I’ve always had to hunt for scraps where paternal affection’s concerned.”

— Lucy Foley

183. “Just two people briefly reunited, finally freed from the shadows of the past.”

— Lucy Foley

184. “Her skills as an actress have always seemed to come to the fore in real life rather than on the stage.”

— Lucy Foley

185. “How none of Ben’s neighbours seem prepared to give me the time of day – more than that, seem actively hostile. How it just feels like something here is wrong.”

— Lucy Foley

186. “I had always felt, ever since Jamie and I got together, that it was too good, that we were too lucky. That happiness like this couldn’t possibly last: we were using up more than our allotted quota of the stuff, and at some point someone had to notice.”

— Lucy Foley

187. “Will’s always been the centre of everything, the anchor of the group, all of us revolving round him. Good at sport, good enough grades – with a bit of extra help here and there. Everyone liked him. And I guess it seemed effortless, as though he didn’t work for anything. If you.”

— Lucy Foley

188. “That name. But Sofiya Volkova no longer exists. I left her back there, shut up in that place with the staircase leading deep underground, the velvet walls, the locked room.”

— Lucy Foley

189. “I can see the lights of the mainland in the distance like a trail of spilled glitter in the blackness.”

— Lucy Foley

190. “He’s right. I can’t think of the last time we ate out, other than that. Money has been a bit tight and you have to add the cost of a babysitter on top of the meal. But I wish he hadn’t said it.”

— Lucy Foley

191. “I pause. Something about this doesn’t feel right. I’ve had to rely on my instincts quite a lot over the years. And I’ve also been here before. Hand clasped around the door handle. Not knowing what I’m going to find on the other side –.”

— Lucy Foley

192. “Not trapped here like me, friendless and alone. How badly I longed to trade places with her.”

— Lucy Foley