Before I Met You Quotes

“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

“You never really know a person until after they're dead. That's when it all comes out. All the stuff they locked up in boxes. All the secrets, all the lies. That's when you know the truth.”
― Lisa Jewell, Before I Met You

“You're here every night, you join in, but you always seem to be - I don't know - more of a spectator than a participant, as if you are studying us, possibly for some sort of anthropological purpose. Do you even like us?”
― Lisa Jewell, Before I Met You

“It was hard for her to understand why Arlette was alive when Freddie Mercury, for example, was dead.”
― Lisa Jewell, Before I Met You

“Yes, I see, Mr Worsley. The love that shall not speak its name." "Well, yes, something like that. Something illicit, dangerous, yet also something beautiful, something... grand. A grand love, one that has brought both joy and heartache. Yes?”
― Lisa Jewell, Before I Met You

“Which of us would want to set ourselves in aspic, in one glorious golden moment, and never experience the other golden moments of life, beyond mere youth, of family and growth and love and—”
― Lisa Jewell, Before I Met You

“Your father was not a boss-eyed sailor. Or a rapist. He was a legend.”
― Lisa Jewell, Before I Met You

“You never really know a person until after they're dead. That's when it all comes out. All the stuff they locked up in boxes. All the secrets, all the lies. That's when you really know the truth.”
― Lisa Jewell, Before I Met You