Quotes by Alexandra Potter

...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.

Forget men, I want to marry my MacBook. It’s dependable, reliable and you can even go shopping with it.

Too many people miss out on real love because theyre too busy waiting for the ONE to show up

Being single isnt a terminal disease.Try telling that to my mother.

My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. Dont you ever wish you could make that bit go away? I say, feeling angry at the past. That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?You must never say that, he reprimands sternly.But why not? I look at him in surprise.Because its the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Dont ever wish them away. its like your nan always used to say, You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow.

I never know what I’m going to want to curl up in bed with.” I shrug.“How about a man?” she retorts.

...weve told men for so long that were equal, we can open our own doors, carry our own bags, pay our own way, that now theyre afraid to offer in case we accuse them of sex discrimination. If you were a man would you buy a woman underwear? I wouldnt dare. What if she throws it back in your face and calls you a sexist pig? So theyve tried to turn into new men, but thats no good either, because now were telling them to be masculine. We dont just want them in a pair of Marigolds cleaning the oven, thats not good enough. We want them to take control, to whisk us off hotels, buy us dinner, and make mad passionate love to us all night. We want it all ways. We want them heroes and handy with the vacuum. No wonder the poor guys are confused

If you want a man whos commited, go look in a mental hospital.

I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It’s staying in love that‘s the hard part.

Is that how you’re supposed to find your soulmate and fall in love these days? By flirting in 140 character tweets and stalking each other’s social media pages?

I pity you Juliet. You dont know what love is. You think its Valentines Day, and weekends in Italy. You think its drinking champagne in some expensive restaurant and being bought stupid bloody underwear. But thats just the trimmings. The decoration. Theyre just gestures. Without trust, and respect, and kindness, they dont mean shit. I thought love was about caring about someone day in and day out, about being there when its rucking amazing and still wanting to be there when it feels like crap, I thought it was about forever.

Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. No thanks, Im not hungry.Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet, nodded Trudy sagely. Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.

Books might be your passion but you can’t fuck a paperback.

consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until weve got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then its too late

The first time I met you, I fell in love with you there and then, but you didnt notice me. Then you stood me up. And then I met you again and I hated you. Well, I tried to hated you, but then when you cleaned up after Welly... I fell in love with you all over again.

So what are you doing around here? I ask, feeling all jittery, but this time its in a good way.Oh, I was just in the area. he says vaguely. I thought Id take Welly for a walk... He trails off and stuffs his hands in his pockets. Those butterflies are going crazy in there.

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.

I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you werent laughing anymore.