Don't Let Him In Quotes

“He’d wanted this house because it was south-facing; he had his favorite suntrap spots in the garden, one in particular where he could sunbathe even in February, which he referred to as “Ibiza.” “I’m going to Ibiza for a bit,” he’d say on a sunny morning, a coffee in one hand, sunglasses on his head.”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“I don’t understand why men don’t realize how little effort is involved in making women happy and how many benefits there are to making women happy.”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“It’s not, she thinks, as she unwraps the paper from around the sandwich, that she wants a husband, or even a boyfriend. She just wants to know that the boyfriend or the husband will arrive at some point. That the job will arrive. That the career and the dog and the flat and the whole deal will arrive. It doesn’t have to be now. But some sort of guarantee would quell the fear.”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“I don’t know why anyone would choose to go into the restaurant industry”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“gender”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“thinking that a boy might save her, but they all look ugly to her, stupid and ugly.”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“hanging”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“He has that sugary, slightly doughy smell of sleepy men”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“it’s why I work so hard to maintain my charming exterior, because my interior is a chaotic hellscape beyond anyone’s possible imaginings.”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“I pull out my own phone, find my diary, and scroll to 17 June, and of course there’s nothing there because my life doesn’t work like that, it doesn’t have markers and delineations, it doesn’t hang on dates and plans, it just hurls itself at me in disjointed chunks that I have to somehow knit together into something that looks like normality, and it’s why I work so hard to maintain my charming exterior, because my interior is a chaotic hellscape beyond anyone’s possible imaginings.”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“don’t understand why men don’t realize how little effort is involved in making women happy and how many benefits there are to making women happy.”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“my blueprint for managing women, for learning how to navigate and bypass their natural defenses (so much easier than they want you to think it is).”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“Yeah. I thought it was going to end up that he was one of those blokes you read about. The ones who marry loads of women and lie to everyone and steal all their money.”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“less.”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In

“Please see below for some recommended reading, listening, and watching if you want to dig deeper into the psychology of men like Simon Smith. And in the meantime: be careful who you let in…”
― Lisa Jewell, Don't Let Him In