I Found You Quotes

“She'd been acting the role of the scary woman for years because deep down inside she was scared. Scared of being alone. Scared that she'd had all her chances at happiness and blown each and every one of them.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“Because deep down inside, she was scared. Scared of being alone, scared of being an outsider. Scared that she had all of her chances of happiness; and blown each and every one of them.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“Don’t make promises,” she says, “just do what you can do. Just be what you can be. However flawed that it is.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“I’d been secretly fantasising about you waking up fully restored back to factory settings.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“But even in the fog of their fading faculties, they are holding hands. There are their hands, clutched together between them. They don’t know who the prime minister is, they don’t know what day of the week, what month, or even what year it is. They can’t quite remember their daughters’ names and they certainly can’t remember if they had lunch today or what the plan is for supper tonight. They know nothing of any significance whatsoever. But they do know they love each other.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“But when it is just me. Alone. With myself—there is no sunshine.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“Someone, somewhere has liked something that Jasmine has posted on Instagram. This means that Alice’s phone will continue to pop for the next ten minutes or so as everyone Jasmine knows likes the thing she posted. Alice pictures a sea of disembodied thumbs senselessly pressing hearts. She sighs.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“His minute steak was tough and chewy, the chips were too greasy, and the ketchup wasn’t Heinz.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“I’m not the most together person in the world and it doesn’t take much to make all the wheels fall off.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“in the context of a school trip it was as though they’d all just been released from a sensory-deprivation capsule.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“They don’t know who the prime minister is; they don’t know what day of the week, month or even year it is. They can’t quite remember their daughters’ names and they certainly can’t remember if they had lunch today or what the plan is for supper tonight.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“a pot of tea on the coffee table.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You

“a sea of disembodied thumbs senselessly pressing hearts.”
― Lisa Jewell, I Found You