Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding

• Why is it that the less you appear to want sex with men the more they do?
• But really it is all very well you yourself thinking things aren't right in a relationship, but if the other person starts doing it is like someone else criticizing your mother.
• Listen, Bridge, taking advice on dating from Jude and Shzzer is like taking advice from a diet consultant who weighs two hundred pounds.
• There's nothing a man finds more attractive than a woman who is in love with him.
• In darkness the stone becomes the buffalo. In sunlight all is as it is.
• He just didn't fancy me. Pretentious Jerome had committed a vicious, selfish, unforgivable, ego-destroying crime against all the laws of dating decency.
• Massive relief to be back in own home where am adult lord of castle instead of pawn in other people's games.
• They're all mouth and no trousers.
• The greatest thing you'll ever learn is how to love and be loved in return.
• Love is not something that happens to you but something you do.
• My sense of self comes not from other people but from myself.
• Human beings have capacity to change and grow.
• You see is amazing way that concentrating on work and career completely takes mind off romantic sadness.
• Love is never outside ourselves, love is within us.
• The danger is if you've been single for a time, you get so locked into a network of friends--this is particularly true of women--that it hardly leaves room for a man in their lives, emotionally as much as anything because their friends and their views are their first point of reference.
• A woman must know what she believes in, otherwise how can you believe in her yourself?
• He had lost all sense of himself and self-respect by begging her to come back, thereby undoing all his good dignified work of the last two months.
• When do not have sex life always feel sad when passing condom section as whole side of life that is denied to me.
• The secret of spiritual happiness is not doing the washing up in order to get the washing up done but to do the washing up. Is exactly the same with Christmas cards.

3/19/2003