Jon Rance > Quotes

“Why are weather people never right? It’s probably the only profession in the world where you can be wrong most of time and still keep your job.”
― Jon Rance, This Thirtysomething Life

“My fear of getting hurt or making a fool of myself is always greater than my desire to ask the girl out. There’s been so many girls over the years that I’ve loved from afar, but never actually asked out. I just can’t do it and I know it’s ridiculous because worst case scenario they say no, but for some reason the thought of rejection terrifies me enough to not do it.”
― Jon Rance, A Notting Hill Christmas

“All the reasons why you’re saying no are the same reasons why I have to leave. I know you love me – I love you too – but it isn’t about that. I can’t keep going along pretending everything’s fine when it isn’t. I don’t want to wake up at forty and blame you for me not doing this. I want to be happy and this is going to make me happy.”
― Jon Rance, Happy Endings

“Children change us, or maybe it’s our love for them that changes us. They melt us, and all the things that seemed a bit naff and annoying before, we see with new eyes; the eyes of a parent.”
― Jon Rance, This Family Life

“We met as struggling artists, both intent on making it in our chosen fields and somehow one of us achieving it broke the balance and sank the ship. Our joint failure had been the glue that kept us together, but maybe now it was tearing us apart.”
― Jon Rance, Happy Endings

“Grandad always went on about the good old days. I loved that about him. The funny thing is though, we don’t really know when we’re in the good old days. It seems impossible to know at an exact moment that it’s something special. You can be happy, you can know that a particular time is important, but you never know if it’s the good old days until it’s gone.”
― Jon Rance, This Family Life

“It’s the thing about growing up. Sometimes it feels like everything has changed, and that nothing will ever be the same again, but then in moments it feels like nothing has really changed at all.”
― Jon Rance, The Notecard

“I just want to be happy,’ she said. She didn’t look at Sam because she couldn’t. ‘I just want to wake up one day and feel really happy.’ Sam looked at her. He could see the pain wrapped around her eyes, and he could sense it in her voice. He didn’t know her whole story. He barely knew her at all, really. But he knew that given the chance, he wanted to make her happy. She had a vulnerability about her. She had obviously spent time building a wall around herself for protection, but he could see that behind it, she was just scared and unhappy. Like so many people, they appeared one way and when you got to know them you realised they were something else entirely.”
― Jon Rance, One Lie

“My one-night stand record stands at three and two of those ended up with the man in tears.”
― Jon Rance, The Notecard

“Happiness is never far away, as long as you’re looking in all the right places. What he meant was, you need to follow your dreams. Whatever they are, go after them and make them a reality. You’ll never be happy if you aren’t being true to yourself. So go out there and be you, be proud to be you.”
― Jon Rance, Sunday Dinners: Marriage, kids, and gravy – what could possibly go wrong?

“It’s guttural and jarring and you never want to hear it because it’s almost the opposite of what love sounds like. It’s what happens when love dies. When the person who kept everything together is gone and you feel like your whole world has been ripped apart.”
― Jon Rance, Good Grief

“Could it really have been eight months or longer since we had proper sex? At what point are we just really good friends who happen to live under the same roof and share child-rearing duties?”
― jon rance, This Family Life

“Nothing ruins a play like a giant penis squashing the disabled audience.”
― Jon Rance, This Family Life

“really disabled,’ Matt says to Saskia. ‘He had one of those stickers on his car, but he just had really bad eyesight. It wasn’t like he was a paraplegic.’ ‘Quite the crime spree,’ says Saskia. ‘Should I be worried?’ ‘I’ve grown up a lot since then,’ says Matt. ‘It’s true. He changes his underwear nearly every day now,’ says Lizzy with a smile.”
― Jon Rance, Sunday Dinners: Marriage, kids, and gravy – what could possibly go wrong?

“I needed to prove to Emma, and more importantly to myself, that I could do something worthwhile. Ed told me frequently about jobs he could get me in the City, where I could earn four times the amount I made at To Bean or Not to Bean, the shitty Shakespearean-themed café I managed, serving ridiculously named coffees like The Taming of the Brew, the Caramel Macbeth and, my personal favourite, the Antony and Cappuccino.”
― Jon Rance, Happy Endings