..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.

Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

It is horrid to smirk.

One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.