Jill Mansell Quotes & Sayings

Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed? — Jill Mansell

There was an element of risk - however small - in everything. You just had to accept that and get on with it. — Jill Mansell

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

All in all, the next minutes surely ranked among the most calamitously awkward of Ronans life. — Jill Mansell

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. As — Jill Mansell

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

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

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

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

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

He bestowed his smiles indiscriminately and left a trail of havoc in his wake. — Jill Mansell

On the outside she might appear cool, but inside her heart felt as though it was disintegrating like a digestive dropped in hot tea — Jill Mansell

Once a Pot Noodler, always a Pot Noodler. — Jill Mansell

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

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

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

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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

This not flirting and just-being-friends business was going to be bloody hard. — Jill Mansell

Sometimes it only takes a split second for a state of absolute calm to turn to one of horror and panic — Jill Mansell

She looked down at the hand and saw that it was clutching instead a handful of perfume card samplers, each one sprayed with a different scent. — Jill Mansell

The more you didn't want to bump into someone, sod's law dictated that the more often you would. — Jill Mansell

Clemency marvelled, trying a purple eyeshadow shot with gold sparkly bits on the back of her hand — Jill Mansell

Another brittle hug from Adele - it was like being embraced by a Ryvita — Jill Mansell

If you marry for money, you end up earning every penny. — Jill Mansell

Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal. — Jill Mansell