Quotes from Alexandra Potter

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

just in case" is the curse of packing

C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.

Sounds incredible? Hell, it does. But perhaps we all need to believe something incredible once in a while.

I don't understand it myself, really. It's like the idea of him is better than the him of him

Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more?

It is always the silly things that remind me

The first time I met you, I fell in love with you there and then, but you didn't 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.

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

If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they're interested and off when they're not available. Then you'd know exactly where you were and you wouldn't have to worry about getting it wrong and being horribly embarrassed. --- Lucy

Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.

It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

But, you know, everytime your heart is broken, it gets stronger.

You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.

OK, I confess. I Googled him once. Maybe twice. Oh, all right, so I've lost count over the years. But so what? Who hasn't gone home and Googled a man they're in love with? Hang on - did I just say the L word? - Lucy

They probably didn't care if it was the real thing or not. They wanted it to be. And by suspending their disbelief they could believe in the illusion.

i thought love was about caring about someone day in and day out, about being there when it's fucking amazing, and still wanting to be there when it feels like crap. i thought it was about for ever' -will, calling romeo

It wasn't just the big romantic gestures that made a relationship, it was all the little things.

if you love someone your heart will always remember them. Even if the mind doesn't, the heart never forgets.

Scooping up the dress, I slip it over my head, and as it cascades to the floor. I suck my stomach for all I'm worth. Forget staying in with a good book. This Cinderella is going to the ball.

Being single isn't a terminal disease." "Try telling that to my mother.

It was over before it had even begun

With endings come new beginnings.

she'd been in a hermetically sealed bubble. A " couple bubble" that made the rest of the male species invisible.