Dune Road Quotes

“When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“Loving she realises is a verb. It is an act. It is not enough to say you love someone, and then forget about them, or trust a relationship will stay strong simply because you share a house or children or a life.
Loving requires acts of love. It requires thinking of your spouse, doing things for them to make them happy. It requires acting in loving ways, even when you are tired, or bogged down with work, or so stressed you are waking up every night with a jaw sore from grinding your teeth.
They forgot to do that, she now knows. They forgot to love each other. They expected love to continue, without putting any work into it, and today she knows this is why her marriage failed.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“Once the intimacy has gone, however well you may get on, however friendly you may become, it is hard to believe it was ever there.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“Im used to being adored, but i have no interest in being adored. If you want me to fall in love with you, ignore me, pique my interest by being completely uninterested.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“A cougar is a sexually active and confident woman who's a predator. Tell me you not flattered.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“She had married him because she felt sage, because she'd had enough pain to last her a lifetime, and because although he had many faults, faults she was aware of before she married him, she knew he wouldn't hurt her.
She knew because there was no passion, and the only time she had felt passion, it had come with a price.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“She hadn't realised how low her self esteem had been, first during her relationship, when she tried to turn herself into someone else, and then when recovering from the break up.
Because however much she was a part of the decision to break up, she still felt bruised and battered, never thought she'd have the energy to go through all this again with someone new.
It has been so much easier, since they separated, to be cocooned with her family, to nest in her cosy home and allow life to carry on for others, outside the safety of her house.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Simpson's IQ. ”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“I only seem to attract losers, cute losers, but I've just never been able To resist that lethal combination of black hair and green eyes.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“Put it like this: show me a man who knows how to treat a woman like dirt, and I will faint with delight at his feet and allow him to treat me like the doormat he so clearly wants me to be.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“My conscious self would do anything to avoid people with cheating tendencies, but my subconscious keeps trying to recreate home and keeps bringing me back to people who recreate my childhood.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road