Lisa Jewell Quotes

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

I am a private human.

I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

You don't need to know who I'm dating. You don't need to know what I'm doing. I'm fine with everybody not knowing that.

I don't belong to anyone.

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

I like to have space.

People that know me know I'm very good about doing my own thing and minding my own business.

I don't want to be any more interesting than I am. I love the life that I get to live, which is one of real independence and privacy and autonomy.

People should just let me be.

I like my space.

I'm going to do everything I'm supposed to do - except roommates. No roommates. I quietly paid for my own room on the road. I didn't want to tell anyone.

I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.