The Lucky Escape Quotes

“Modern life – all the “having to be at places at certain times, the bills, the responsibilities”, we’re over-burdened. We complicate things and make ourselves busy, and we think that gives life meaning.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“I want my loyalty to this office taken into consideration when it comes to my yearly compensation review. I won't be leaving for Antwerp, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't look for something else here if I don't feel valued.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“I’d tasted non-judgement, and curiosity, and just general nice-guy-ness. I knew what steak was, now, and that didn’t make me miss the cheap hamburger of Alexander at all.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“Mum always taught us that nice girls don’t beg, nice girls don’t nag. But nice girls could still get angry, couldn’t they? I wasn’t a bad person for having wants or needs or feelings.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“The future was so uncertain but the past never changed and that was a comfort.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“I guess money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you convenience”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“I deserve more than I had in that relationship.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“Alexander was awful to me. But what does it say that I loved him anyway?'
'That you search for the best in people.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“You two are the cutest,' she said as she pulled us into a three-way hug at departures. 'I wish everything for you that you wish for yourself.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“Only water the thoughts you want to grow.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“You enjoy how he remembers you, and you want to remember that version of yourself too.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“I can't do the honeymoon, though. That's too much. I'm still too raw.'
'And that's absolutely fine,' Bri soothed. 'Whatever you want to do, we're here. I swear - this is not going to be your undoing. It's going to be your becoming. We'll make sure of it. None of us is screwing up like we think we are.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“Why is it that when we don’t know what else to do, we make a cup of tea?”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“but then she hadn’t turned thirty yet. Something happens in your brain when you do, I swear. I don’t know if it’s society or culture or the biological clock or witchcraft or what. But it’s real. And I don’t think blokes have it.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape

“The way I see it, we’re all looking to each other for permission to be free, so I’m happy to go first and give it. Nobody knows how much time they have left, so there’s no point wasting it trying to be good when it’s so much more fun to keep having fun.”
― Laura Jane Williams, The Lucky Escape