Jill Mansell Quotes

#1. 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

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#2. If you marry for money, you end up earning every penny.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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

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#5. Once a Pot Noodler, always a Pot Noodler.

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

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

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#8. Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal.

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#9. All in all, the next minutes surely ranked among the most calamitously awkward of Ronans life.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed?

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#13. He bestowed his smiles indiscriminately and left a trail of havoc in his wake.

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#14. 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.

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#15. This not flirting and just-being-friends business was going to be bloody hard.

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#16. Oh my god, two days ago I fell in love with the girl of my dreams. Tonight I find out she's insane

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#17. 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.

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#18. even a little bit?" "No." She

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#19. Sometimes it only takes a split second for a state of absolute calm to turn to one of horror and panic

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

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#21. Another brittle hug from Adele - it was like being embraced by a Ryvita

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#22. 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?

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#23. Clemency marvelled, trying a purple eyeshadow shot with gold sparkly bits on the back of her hand

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#24. 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.

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