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?

— Alexandra Potter

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

— Alexandra Potter

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

— Alexandra Potter

My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't 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 it's the bad memories that make you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. It's like your Nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow".

— Alexandra Potter

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

— Alexandra Potter

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

— Alexandra Potter

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 hate you, but then when you cleaned up after Welly... I fell in love with you all over again.

— Alexandra Potter

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

— Alexandra Potter

...we've told men for so long that we're equal, we can open our own doors, carry our own bags, pay our own way, that now they're afraid to offer in case we accuse them of sex discrimination. If you were a man would you buy a woman underwear? I wouldn't dare. What if she throws it back in your face and calls you a sexist pig? So they've tried to turn into new men, but that's no good either, because now we're telling them to be masculine. We don't just want them in a pair of Marigolds cleaning the oven, that's 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. Furthermore, we want it always. Furthermore, we want them heroes and handy with the vacuum. No wonder the poor guys are confused

— Alexandra Potter

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

— Alexandra Potter