Jane Green Quotes

Love can happen any moment, anywhere, but I am also a person who believes more in friendship than love, relationships, and affairs.

My experience of what a loving relationship is like rings true with a lot of people I meet. I have a theory that the people you meet, one way you choose them, is their suitability for you in that particular matter. Attitudes toward friendship and marriage are in many cases closely aligned.

Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

I don't know that sex always has to have feelings, but I think that friendship always does.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

There is nothing you can control about love.

I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.

Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. It's not necessarily about falling in love.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.

Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'