Quotes of Sandie Jones

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“There’s something about your mother’s voice that nobody else can replicate.” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“You’re never too old for your mum to care about you,” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“she peered round that curtain I felt as if my heart were about to burst. That feeling, when only your mother will do, never really goes away, and as she whispered in my ear that everything would be all right,” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“Sometimes things happen and you have no way of understanding them. You try to find a reason to justify it, but there isn’t always an answer. It’s just life.” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“Sorry,” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“by the time I was on that tiny chair behind the screen, all I wanted was my mum: to take away both my physical and emotional pain.” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“I remember the Sunday morning that she had woken me up, with tears streaming down her face, to tell me that the Princess had died. We sat in front of the TV all day, along with millions of others, praying that someone had got it wrong.” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“It was just a beautiful meeting of two people who were utterly in tune with each other.” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“loved him. I don’t know why, because I did. Perhaps it was all part of that in-built defense mechanism that women seem to be born with, that bogs us down and keeps us from saying the things we really want to say. Believing that holding back somehow keeps us one step ahead, making us the better, stronger gender. Why,” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“Perhaps it was all part of that in-built defense mechanism that women seem to be born with, that bogs us down and keeps us from saying the things we really want to say. Believing that holding back somehow keeps us one step ahead, making us the better, stronger gender. Why, then, did pretending to be someone I wasn’t leave me feeling weak and bereft?” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“My mum was here. Everything would be okay.” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“CNN and The New York Times are called fake news by some people on our side, while the president personally thanks infowars.com and its founder Alex Jones for “standing up for the values that makes this country great.” Jones, it must be noted, has rarely met a bizarre conspiracy that he didn’t fully embrace and is one of the most egregious polluters of civil discourse in America. He believes, for instance, that 9/11 was perpetrated by the American government and that the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, in which twenty first-graders were killed, was a hoax staged by the government as a pretext to confiscate our guns. Those grieving parents that we all saw were—according to Jones—paid actors. It was disheartening to learn that in the days immediately following his election, as President-Elect Trump was receiving the well wishes of world leaders, he also took time to place a call to this man to let him know how important his support had been to the success of his campaign. Giving away one’s agency and becoming captive to such outlandish and vile alternative facts would be bad enough were one an average person, quietly living his or her life. But giving away one’s agency to such a confusion of fact and fantasy when one has power—well, that is truly dangerous.” ― Jeff Flake, Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
“There’s something about your mother’s voice that nobody else can replicate. That takes you back to school, when you were little and waiting in the nurse’s office for her to come and pick you up.” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“Whether my injury would be sufficient to warrant calling her. But I so needed to feel safe, it was a risk I was prepared to take. It felt like hours before she arrived, though I knew she was there even before I saw her. I just sensed her, and when she peered round that curtain I felt as if my heart was about to burst. That feeling, when only your mother will do, never really goes away, and as she whispers in my ear that everything will be all right, my heart breaks” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“won’t be a” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“new” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“It is if you do anything about it, but for now, it’s locked up in a lovely little fantasy room that we’re all allowed to have and like to look into, but never actually enter. That’s the difference.” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“I'll have you know that I'm the cream of the crop in my industry. One of the highest ranking performers in the field.” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
“Three glasses of Pinot Grigio in, and it was getting worse. It felt like they had their own private club, one which I didn't have a membership to.” ― Sandie Jones, The Other Woman
Sandie Jones
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Sandie Jones

Sandie Jones has worked as a freelance journalist for over twenty years, and has written for publications including the Sunday Times, Woman’s Weekly and the Daily Mail. She lives in London with her husband and three children. The Other Woman is her debut nove…

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