Jen Lancaster Quotes

While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

You guys didn't really think you could go off on a party weekend without me, did you? Especially here of all places—" He froze and it was one of those rare moments when Adrian Ivashkov was caught totally and completely off guard. "Did you know," he said slowly, "that Victor Dashkov is sitting on your bed?" "Yeah," I said. "It was kind of a shock to us too.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.

I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.

Without thinking, I grab Al's arm and squeeze it as tightly as I can. I just need something to hold on to. Blood runs down the side of Christina's face and splatters on the ground next to her cheek. This is the first time I have ever prayed for someone to fall unconscious.... Al frees his hand and pulls me tight to his side. I clench my teeth to keep from crying out.

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

The people who I thought would be the hardest to work with were the easiest, and the people I thought would be the easiest were actually the hardest.

Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

I think, for myself, life lied to me.

The plan is not what you think.

For years now, people have mentioned my mustache and get disappointed that when they see me live I don't have a mustache.