When We Were Friends Quotes

“Nobody warned Lucy that a friendship breakup, that this friendship breakup, could be harder than a divorce. Nobody warned her that a female friend could break her heart into smithereens, that it would take months before she felt like herself.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“I thought so little of myself, I was willing to accept whatever people offered me, because I didn’t think I deserved more.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“So, what do you think about her and Travis. Forever?” KC shrugs. “I’m giving it six months,”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“She’d give her right arm to be cozied up on a sofa at home, binge-watching Love Island.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“Apparently gift giving is my love language.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“Lucy refuses to call her ex-husband a narcissist, because everyone else’s ex-husband is also a narcissist, and really, how is it possible that every single divorced woman in Fairfield County has an ex-husband who is a narcissist? I mean, how many narcissists can there be in the world?”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“The wives growing smaller and smaller, losing themselves because it became just too hard to keep fighting. When they looked in the mirror, they didn’t remember who they were.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“It’s such a gift of aging, if we’re lucky, to learn to listen to that quiet voice inside that is always right, and always wants the best for us.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“Very soon, she starts to understand more about herself. Why she put up with being treated badly, how easily she forgave, or overlooked bad behavior from people she loved. She starts to connect the dots from her chaotic, difficult childhood, a childhood where being treated badly was the rule rather than the exception.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“Who knows. I think perhaps all narcissists are just men who can’t help being arses because they haven’t been taught how to process emotions.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“The biggest lesson is that I’m perfectly fine, exactly as I am, where I am, and I will never again look to another person to try and make me whole.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“It’s the daily best friend Lucy misses—the person you call to talk about nothing and everything, several times a day.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends