See Jane Date Quotes
"You don’t need a boyfriend to be happy, Jane." - Amanda
"You’ll find love when you stop looking." - Gwen
"You have high standards. Not that there’s anything wrong with that." - Eloise
"You gotta put it out there, girlfriend!" - Cosmo
"Because you can do everything everyone suggests, and it still won’t make the man you can imagine having kids with love you back."
"A couple of dances at a wedding, some small talk. And you get three hundred thousand dollars!"
"I’ve been sleeping on the same lumpy futon for six years."
"If you were wondering how I could afford the apartment on my salary... it was all about budgets and credit cards."
"If I didn’t get promoted to associate editor, I’d—well, who knows what I’d do?"
"The goal was sophisticated chic, yet natural."
"Opera Man’s sex life was going to ruin my chance to get promoted."
"I had fifteen minutes to alter the course of my entire life."
"You shouldn’t have to attend a wedding alone at your age. I understand it’s a little humiliating."
"You have a final fitting for your dress next Saturday, Miss Smart Aleck."
"I’m not gonna get my hopes up too high about Kevin."
"Sometimes it comforted you, and sometimes it made you cry."
"I was fucking one of the most famous actors currently in show business when he handed me a legal document to sign."
"Why couldn’t she read over my comments and do her work from home? Or better yet, from three thousand miles away, on the stupid houseboat where she now lived?"
"I’d never been interested in climbing a mountain, Everest or otherwise. The whole thing was idiotic."
"The first time I’d clapped eyes on Natasha Anne Nutley was in the sixth grade at P.S. 101."
"The Gnat had faxed her revision of Chapter One and a scene-by-scene, blow-by-blow description of Chapters Two and Three. That was fast."
"Eloise had thought of placing a tiny digital scale between the title and subtitle, with flashing red numbers popping up and fading."
"The minute I’d gotten home I’d listened for sounds of silence from the cabinet under the kitchen sink."
"I wasn’t nuts about Andrew Mackelroy, but he was a person like me, trying to find a little happiness in this world, this city."
"I could hear Serge shouting in his Russian accent. "I do not understand, El-weeze! In my country, when people love each other, they spend time together!"
"I want to do the right thing for the baby." - Natasha
"No one was going to tell me I shouldn’t smoke." - Narrator
"Every woman wants to get married. It’s hard to say no when someone’s proposing." - Natasha
"You marry the guy who’s gonna love you, the guy you don’t have to worry about, the guy who’ll make you feel safe and secure." - Eloise
"I want to be engaged. I want to be getting married." - Eloise
"I don’t want to marry him. I love him and all. I love him so much, but I don’t know." - Natasha
"If he didn’t work out—which he wouldn’t—then whoever I brought to the Plaza would have to be a doctor—or at least play one at weddings." - Narrator
"I was the only Gregg left in the world." - Narrator
"I love him, Jane. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have said yes. I want to get married." - Eloise
"I want a boyfriend and a dog. I want a boyfriend who supposedly looks like the actor Thomas Gibson." - Narrator
"I guess you could say I'm just trying to cope. Everything I do is in reaction to something awful that happened. I know it'll sound clichéd, but it's like I have to write out where I've been to see where I'm going."
"My mom died. A long time ago now. My sophomore year in college."
"You can never go wrong with getting a mom-to-be the book What To Expect When You’re Expecting."
"But once a mess, always a mess. It’s always there, just waiting to come out."
"I’m not exactly in his league. You’re the type he’d go for. Not me."
"Who knew if she was? It wasn’t as though the Gnat was famous for saving the whales or selling more magazines for the school newspaper than any other kid in school."
"I figured that if Robby liked me and wanted to go out with me, I was probably okay, you know? Because he was Mr. Integrity."
"You’re now free to meet the guy of your dreams."
"By the time you’re really ready to settle down, you’ll marry exactly the right guy for you."
"Who wants to love some guy who’s just gonna leave you, anyway?"
"I don’t know what I mean, okay? I just know that if we don’t try, we’ll be alone."
"Everything is really going to be okay. I’m beginning to think that everything will be okay when it’s supposed to be."
"I would die if I were thirty and not married."
"I’m so sorry, Aunt Ina. I’m so sorry I’ve been such a brat."
"I’m sick of my mother worrying herself sick about you when you’re too selfish to care."