Alexandra Potter Quotes

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

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

But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.

If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.

Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet.... Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.

Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.

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

I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren't laughing anymore.

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.

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

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

just in case" is the curse of packing

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

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.

It is always the silly things that remind me

I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.

Their eyes met. It had begun. They had begun.

He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.

And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

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

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

We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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