Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it. ☥

Oh, you're a picky sort, huh?" He laughed. "That takes balls, being choosy at a time like this.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.