Relationship Insight

You’ll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you’ve created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It’s like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting ‘Cathy’ and banging your head against a tree.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

Oh God. I can’t bear to think about it. He might have a secret horror hidden away somewhere. Perhaps he’s got a wife and two children in Sydenham.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as a woman of substance.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary