BRIDGET JONES DIARY BOOK QUOTES

“It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable expectations, should somehow be the right context for romance.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I am stuck in a tragic reality where I keep trying to be sensible and failing miserably.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I must remember that I have been seen as a stoic – a rock made of granite that could withstand anything. Well, I guess the rock is crumbling.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I do not know why I do not ask for a pay rise. I think it is because the longer I do not, the more panicky I get about it, and the less inclined they are to give me it.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night’s panties in the laundry basket.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s 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 that adds up to you got stamped NO, NO, NO.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“It’s not as if I need his navel to reconvert my castrated femininity amid the chaotically circulating biological blocks. Control. I’m on the bloody London Underground.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I must learn not to rely on exterior confirmation of validation of my womanhood.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Can officially confirm that the way to a man’s heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I really am everything he hates in a woman: oversensitive, overemotional, worried about everything, unable to make snap decisions, all my own fault.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I am a tragic victim of megalomania.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Wonder if, after waiting in the wings for all these years, all the ambitious, interesting, talented females suddenly bursting on the scene is what has initiated the process of change.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary QUOTES OF MAULANA JALALUDDIN RUMI IN ENGLISH

“How many of you have endlessly studied those photographs of yourself, looking for the one angle that validates your whole existence?” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“After the best sex of my life, the first big emotional hurdle isn’t too far away. Wonderful.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Now I can love myself for the very person I am: a beautiful, enchanting, lustful, courageous, fouled-up-graveside-flower-wreathing person that I would pick from a crowd full of people yelling, ‘You’re not worth it. Please take your rickety old carcass out of my face.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Why does the fact that I am a woman make sub-procedure themes go nuts? I’m sure I’m supposed to be delegating all over the place, not swooning around in slip dissolve to some plaintive female singing about love.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that Wednesday is the worst day of the week.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“And then I pull myself together realizing that I’m sounding like some tragic Love is a Losing Game bridget who’s just been limblessly dumped.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“By the same token, I imagine that many bright young men have made mistakes of a similar nature, whether with Fender Stratocasters, Ted Hughes poems, or the alphabetized library of Nineteen Seventies Punk and New Wave CDs which for ten torrid unrequited love-strewn years I have slavishly compiled.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s 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 on your merits and they were bored, and that’s all there was.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Being a woman is worse than being a farmer – there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done: legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, skin exfoliated and moisturized, spots cleansed, roots dyed, eyelashes tinted, nails filed, cellulite massaged, stomach muscles exercised.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Happiness is a choice. And misery is an art.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Suddenly every bitchy girl by a battered copy of ‘Jane Eyre’ appears in newsprint, and there are chicks with multi-coloured hair and no voices saying Like, ‘Choose life’ and handing out pamphlets about lepers or something.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary