It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love? — Jane Green Copy Share Image
You are the best person I've met in years, and if I'd met you in a year's time, or maybe even a few months,… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“The woman on the bike raises her head and looks at the sky, sniffs, smiles to herself. A foggy day in Nantucket, but she has lived here long enough to know this is merely a morning fog, and the bright early-June sunshine will burn it off by midday, leaving a beautiful afternoon.” — Jane Green Copy Share
“Forever feels a long time when you're eighteen. When you're away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“What he didn’t do was control me, or try to mold me into a little wife, some old-fashioned, muted version of who I was.… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“All those years of beauty, of a wonderful figure, and all I could think was that I was never pretty enough, never slim enough,… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“To be honest, I'm not sure about this whole scared of commitment business. I think it's become too handy, a useful phrase that men can bandy about whenever they feel like being assholes. And sure, I do believe there are some men who are genuinely terrified of commitment, but there aren't that many, and for the most part I think… — Jane Green Copy Share
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“When it's just sex, you're allowed to be predatory, to make the first move, to entice them into bed, because it's not necessary to… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“things have a habit of working out in life the way they are supposed to, if you are able to just relax and trust… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“The bike crunches along the gravel path, weaving around the potholes that could present danger to someone who didn’t know the road like the… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,” — Jane Green Copy Share Image
