Jill Mansell > Quotes

“I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach... I think I'm in love with you... Actually no, that's not true. I know I am.”
― Jill Mansell, To the Moon and Back

“Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed?”
― Jill Mansell, Rumour Has it

“But money or no money we're all searching for the same things aren't we It doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have. Love and happiness that's what it's all about”
― Jill Mansell, Millie's Fling

“Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea.”
― Jill Mansell, An Offer You Can't Refuse

“Sometimes dreams trick you into believing they're real. And then there are other times when, completely out of the blue, life suddenly becomes surreal that you wonder if perhaps you're dreaming after all.”
― Jill Mansell, Take a Chance on Me

“This not flirting and just-being-friends business was going to be bloody hard.”
― Jill Mansell, To the Moon and Back

“If you marry for money, you end up earning every penny.”
― Jill Mansell, Rumour Has it

“... because this was what happened when you loved someone too much and they didn't love you back. They grew stronger and you grew weaker and more helpless. They humiliated you and you let them do it. And you ended up with no self-respect, not even caring that other people were pointing and laughing at you ...”
― Jill Mansell, Take a Chance on Me

“Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal.”
― Jill Mansell, Take a Chance on Me

“Maybe when she'd been eighteen it was a quality she might have laughed at, but at twenty-eight, dependability had turned into something of an aphrodisiac.”
― Jill Mansell, Rumour Has it

“Oh my god, two days ago I fell in love with the girl of my dreams. Tonight I find out she's insane”
― Jill mansell, To the Moon and Back

“The more you didn't want to bump into someone, sod's law dictated that the more often you would.”
― Jill Mansell, Rumour Has it

“The thing is, I was so bursting for the loo that I thought my bladder was going to explode. I could hardly speak, let alone make it up your stairs. When you threw the key down and I had to bend over to pick it up, I thought that was it, I was going to flood the road! And I’m not even exaggerating. I’ve never been so desperate in my life.”
― Jill Mansell, To the Moon and Back

“Desejava uma verdadeira livraria tal como um viciado deseja uma dose. Não havia mesmo nada melhor do que aquele maravilhoso cheiro a livros novos, tocar nas capas e folhear um livro, cujas páginas, se calhar, nunca tinham sido folheadas.
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Há pessoas obececadas e apaixonadas por sapatos. Os sapatos eram bonitos, mas não se podia ficar a noite toda acordade a ler um par, pois não?”
― Jill Mansell, An Offer You Can't Refuse

“... the worst culprits were the ones who were secretly battling with their own feelings.”
― Jill Mansell, Maybe This Time

“She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out.”
― Jill Mansell, Rumour Has it

“He bestowed his smiles indiscriminately and left a trail of havoc in his wake.”
― Jill Mansell, Rumour Has it

“Sometimes wonderful things did happen, out of the blue and for no apparent reason. And what else could you do but go along with it and just be grateful that the person you loved more than anyone else in the world loved you too?”
― Jill Mansell, Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay

“For every wizened female tortoise there's a male tortoise who thinks she's irresistible.”
― Jill Mansell, Maybe This Time

“There was an element of risk - however small - in everything. You just had to accept that and get on with it.”
― Jill Mansell, Millie's Fling

“She’d got so used to not wanting to go out and be sociable that saying no had become her natural default setting. The moment anyone invited her anywhere, her brain began scrambling for plausible excuses as to why she couldn’t make it.”
― Jill Mansell, To the Moon and Back

“Maybe one day it would happen. Maybe one day her life would start going according to plan instead of spluttering and stalling like some clapped-out old banger.”
― Jill Mansell, You And Me, Always

“Well, this time you’re just going to have to stop yourself.” Straightening up, Rupert grinned. “We don’t want this to be spoiled, do we? Trust me, some secrets are better kept.”
― Jill Mansell, Thinking of You

“Sometimes it only takes a split second for a state of absolute calm to turn to one of horror and panic”
― Jill Mansell, Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay

“Sometimes you could meet a complete stranger and just know you really liked them.”
― Jill Mansell, Maybe This Time

“On the surface she might put on a good show, making fun of herself and her manless state, but inwardly it was hard sometimes not to wonder: Why me?”
― Jill Mansell, You And Me, Always

“Every day we do things that are capable of changing everything, and that’s what makes life exciting.”
― Jill Mansell, This Could Change Everything

“But even as the words were coming out of his mouth, he was slightly despising himself for saying them. It was what girls liked to hear though. Every now and again Dex found himself feeling like an actor who'd been performing in the same stage play for far too long. The lines came out automatically, irrespective of whether or not they were true.”
― Jill Mansell, Don't Want to Miss a Thing

“Ah, the old don't-need-a-man thing. I love that line. I mean it sounds great, and girls love to say that stuff because it makes them sound all strong and independent. But it's not actually true, is it? Deep down they're panicking, getting more and more desperate, and the next thing you know, they're hurling themselves into a new relationship.”
― Jill Mansell, Take a Chance on Me

“I just needed to hear someone else say it. I do deserve better.”
― Jill Mansell, Take a Chance on Me