Jane Green Quotes

“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, Summer Secrets

“I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“Obviously, you’re my sister and I don’t want to hear you’re in pain. And the food thing isn’t the solution, as you know.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“It doesn’t occur to anyone that she might be relieved the baby factory is almost closed, that there is a reason she smiles and changes the subject whenever it comes up.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“She remembers telling her best friend that she was never going to have children. She told anyone who would listen she would never have children. She learned to keep quiet and not say anything at all.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“For years she has watched passion in other people’s relationships dissolve over time. Sometimes it dissolves to nothing, but sometimes it is worse. It becomes resentment and rage, loneliness and fear.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“I deserve to be appreciated. I deserve to know what it is to feel this again.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“But fine was not what she wanted. Was that too much to ask? That she should feel something?”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“Because you can handle it. You’ve always been the strong one. I’m sorry I’ve always been so tough on you.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“Haven’t you ever heard that it’s almost always easier to reveal your innermost secrets to a stranger?”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“Don’t settle. Don’t ever settle.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“And it was something more. It felt like coming home.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters

“Perhaps that’s all he is, a distraction from thinking about, or dealing with, the things in her life that are so painful, that fill her with a sadness so great, it is easier to focus on what feels suspiciously like a schoolgirl crush.”
― Jane Green, The Sunshine Sisters