Jill Mansell Quotes

#1. That's great, Cath said, trying not to let her face show how much she wanted to kiss and kill him.

Rainbow Rowell

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

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

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#4. I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.

Ishmael Beah

#5. 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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#6. We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

Alain De Botton

#7. There is no master without a servant and there is no country without citizens. There can't be leaders without followers or subjects. There is no harvest without sowing.

David Ssembajjo

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

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#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. I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.

Rodman Philbrick

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

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

John Donne

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

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

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#20. 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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#21. You were deliberately planned, specially gifted, and lovingly placed on this earth by God. In a world that decides your worth by the clothes you wear or the sports you play, let me tell you something - you are valuable because God created you.

Max Lucado

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

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#23. All dreams can be a source of light...but some are especially radiant. They linger and continue to shine with all they have to reveal.

Carolyn Coman

#24. My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

Manoj Bhargava

#25. Is it okay?"
I nodded and continued chewing. "Y-you made me my first sub."
He smiled. "You remembered.

Shaye Evans

#26. 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

#27. 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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#28. What do you think you are doing by infesting the whole world? Because I do it with one puny boat, I am called a pirate; because you do it with a great fleet, you are called an emperor.

Augustine Of Hippo

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

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#30. An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

William James

#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. I am too swift of tongue. But I think that is the best way to talk to a dragon.

Robin Hobb

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

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

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

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#37. When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.

Richard J. Corman

#38. Paradoxes haunt the lives of born wayfinders, driving them to seek resolutions to the apparent contradictions in their lives, enticing them into the world that is beyond words and can therefore contain paradox without contradiction.

Martha N. Beck

#39. 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